Noun

• S: (n) defenselessness, defencelessness, unprotectedness (the property of being helpless in the face of attack)
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• S: (n) vulnerability (susceptibility to injury or attack)
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• S: (n) defenselessness, defencelessness, unprotectedness (the property of being helpless in the face of attack)
• S: (n) assailability (vulnerability to forceful attack)
• S: (n) destructibility (vulnerability to destruction)
• S: (n) fragility, breakability, frangibleness, frangibility (quality of being easily damaged or destroyed)
• S: (n) exposure (vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain) "exposure to the weather"; "they died from exposure"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
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• W: (adj) defenseless [Related to: defenselessness] (lacking protection or support) "a defenseless child"
• W: (adj) defenseless [Related to: defenselessness] (having no protecting or concealing cover) "naked to mine enemies"- Shakespeare
• W: (adj) defenseless [Related to: defenselessness] (lacking weapons for self-defense)
• W: (adj) defenceless [Related to: defencelessness] (lacking protection or support) "a defenseless child"
• W: (adj) defenceless [Related to: defencelessness] (lacking weapons for self-defense)
• W: (adj) unprotected [Related to: unprotectedness] (lacking protection or defense)