'Insecurity' definitions:
Definition of 'insecurity'
From: WordNet
noun
The state of being subject to danger or injury [ant: security]
noun
The anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure
Definition of 'Insecurity'
From: GCIDE
- Insecurity \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; lack of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; lack of confidence. [1913 Webster]
- With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects . . . unto arbitrary calculations. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- A time of insecurity, when interests of all sorts become objects of speculation. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'insecurity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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