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vulnerability

English

Etymology

From vulnerable +? -ability

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?v?ln????b?l?ti/
  • Rhymes: -?l?ti
  • Hyphenation: vul?ner?a?bil?i?ty

Noun

vulnerability (countable and uncountable, plural vulnerabilities)

  1. (uncountable) Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
    The country recognized their defence vulnerability after an airplane landed in front of the central square without any consequences.
  2. (countable) a specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.
  3. (computing) a weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security

Synonyms

  • vulnerableness

Antonyms

  • invulnerability

Related terms

  • vulnerable

Translations

vulnerability From the web:

  • what vulnerability means
  • what vulnerability is not
  • what vulnerability did wannacry exploit
  • what vulnerability did stuxnet exploit
  • what vulnerability definition
  • what vulnerability assessment
  • what vulnerability is exposed in this code
  • what vulnerability was exploited at solarwinds


precarity

English

Etymology

Back-formation from precarious +? -ity

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /p???k???ti/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p???k????ti/
  • Rhymes: -????ti
  • Hyphenation: ca?ri?ty

Noun

precarity (countable and uncountable, plural precarities)

  1. (sociology) a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare.

Related terms

  • precariat
  • precarious
  • precariousness

Translations

precarity From the web:

  • precarity meaning
  • what does precarity mean
  • what does precarity
  • what is precarity
  • what is economic precarity
  • what is hyper-precarity
  • what is your precarity
  • precarity define
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