Dictionary Definition
insecurity
Noun
1 the state of being subject to danger or injury
[ant: security]
2 the anxiety you experience when you feel
vulnerable and insecure
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- a lack of security
- the state of being subject to danger; vulnerability
Antonyms
Extensive Definition
Insecurity can mean:
- Lack of security in an objective sense - see Risk, and particularly: Data security and Computer security.
- Emotional insecurity in psychology
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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