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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Insecurity \In'se*cu"ri*ty\, noun; 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.
2. The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; lack of confidence.
With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects . . . unto arbitrary calculations. --Sir T. Browne.
A time of insecurity, when interests of all sorts become objects of speculation. --Burke.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "insecurity": 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
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