vulnerability

Other forms of vulnerability

plural

vulnerabilities·

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.

Questions about vulnerability

What does vulnerability mean?

vulnerability means "the state of being vulnerable or exposed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vulnerability?

vulnerability has 6 syllables: vul-ne-ra-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˌvʌlnɚəˈbɪlɪti/.

What is another word for vulnerability?

Close synonyms include exposure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of vulnerability?

The recorded antonyms are invulnerability.

Is vulnerability a common word?

vulnerability is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with vulnerability?

48 words rhyme with vulnerability. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.