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say it: in-si-KYUUR-i-tee
insecurity is a noun meaning "the state of being subject to danger or injury". It is pronounced /ˌɪnsɪˈkjʊɹɪti/ — in-si-KYUUR-i-tee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the state of being subject to danger or injury
the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for insecurity come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.