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From vulnerable + -ability.
- IPA(key): /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/
- (proscribed) IPA(key): /ˌvʌn(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/
- Hyphenation: vul‧ner‧a‧bil‧i‧ty
- Rhymes: -ɪlɪti
vulnerability (countable and uncountable, plural vulnerabilities)
- (uncountable) The state of being vulnerable; susceptibility to attack or injury, either physical or emotional; 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.
2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71:
Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.
- (countable) A specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.
- (computing) A weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security.
state of being vulnerable
- Belarusian: уразлі́васць f (urazlívascʹ)
- Bulgarian: уязви́мост (bg) f (ujazvímost)
- Catalan: vulnerabilitat f
- Chinese:
- Czech: zranitelnost (cs) f
- Dutch: kwetsbaarheid (nl) f, zwakke plek f
- Finnish: haavoittuvuus (fi)
- French: vulnérabilité (fr) f
- Galician: vulnerabilidade f
- Georgian: დაუცველობა (daucveloba), მოწყვლადობა (moc̣q̇vladoba)
- German: Verwundbarkeit (de) f, Verletzbarkeit f, Verletzlichkeit f, Vulnerabilität (de) f
- Greek: ευπάθεια (el) f (efpátheia), τρωτότητα (el) f (trotótita)
- Indonesian: kerentanan (id)
- Irish: leochaileacht f
- Italian: vulnerabilità (it) f
- Japanese: 脆弱性 (ja) (ぜいじゃくせい, zeijakusei)
- Korean: 취약성 (chwiyakseong)
- Macedonian: ранливост f (ranlivost)
- Malay: kerentanan, kegoyahan
- Manx: so-lhottaght f
- Occitan: vulnerabilitat (oc) f
- Persian: آسیبپذیری (fa) (âsib-paziri)
- Polish: wrażliwość (pl) f
- Portuguese: vulnerabilidade (pt) f
- Romanian: vulnerabilitate (ro) f
- Russian: уязви́мость (ru) f (ujazvímostʹ), рани́мость (ru) f (ranímostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ра̀њиво̄ст f
- Roman: rànjivōst (sh) f
- Slovak: zraniteľnosť f
- Slovene: ranljivost f
- Spanish: vulnerabilidad (es) f
- Swedish: sårbarhet (sv) c
- Turkish: yaralanabilirlik
- Ukrainian: уразли́вість f (urazlývistʹ)
computing: type of weakness
security vulnerability — see hole