Insecurity
[ˌɪnsɪ'kjʊərətɪ] or [ˌɪnsɪˈkjʊrətɪ]
Definition
(noun.) the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure.
(noun.) the state of being subject to danger or injury.
Edited by Arnold--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; want of confidence.
Inputed by Cyrus
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Uncertainty.[2]. Danger, hazard, peril.
Edited by Colin
Examples
- Europe relapsed into universal insecurity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The sense of disease and mortality, the insecurity and the unsatisfactoriness of all happiness, descended upon the mind of Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was a time of confusion, of brigandage, of crimes unpunished and universal insecurity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I have certainly never borrowed any money on such an insecurity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In such a country as Gaul it was already well in progress in the days of insecurity _before_ the barbarian tribes broke into the empire as conquerors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was struck by the insecurity of the place in which the register was kept. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The situation, however, was not agreeable enough to lull her to complete unconsciousness of its insecurity. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And the irritations and hardships and the general insecurity of the new time were exacerbated by a profound disturbance of currency and credit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Alexander