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Insecurity

Insecurity Meaning & Definition
Insecurity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Insecurity?

[n] the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure
[n] the state of being subject to danger or injury

Synonyms | Synonyms for Insecurity:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Insecurity: 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

See Also | anxiety | danger | insecureness

Insecurity In Webster's Dictionary

\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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