Meaning of INSECURITY
| Pronunciation: | | `insi'kyûritee
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- [n] the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure
- [n] the state of being subject to danger or injury
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| | Antonyms: | | security | | |
| | See Also: | | anxiety, danger, insecureness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`se*cu"ri*ty\, n.; pl. {Insecurities}. [Pref. in-
not + security : cf. LL. insecuritas, F. insecurite.]
1. The condition or quality of being insecure; want of
safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building
liable to fire; insecurity of a debt.
2. The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; want of
confidence.
With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects . .
. unto arbitrary calculations. --Sir T.
Browne.
A time of insecurity, when interests of all sorts
become objects of speculation. --Burke.
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| | Related Terms: | | chanciness, criticalness, danger, delicacy, desultoriness, doubtfulness, dubiousness, hazard, hazardousness, infirmity, insolidity, instability, insubstantiality, peril, perilousness, precariousness, risk, riskiness, shakiness, shiftiness, shiftingness, slipperiness, speculativeness, sword of Damocles, ticklish business, ticklishness, totteriness, touchiness, treacherousness, treachery, unauthenticity, unauthoritativeness, uncertainty, undependability, unfaithworthiness, unhealthiness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsafeness, unsolidity, unsoundness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsubstantiality, unsureness, untrustworthiness |
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