vulnerabilities
- 1Plural of vulnerability.
Security researchers reported two critical vulnerabilities in the operating system.
Good friendships often grow when people are willing to expose their vulnerabilities.
Note
Only some meanings of the singular can take this plural. The general state of being exposed is uncountable: you can show vulnerability, but not "vulnerabilities" in that sense. The plural therefore always counts particular weak points. These can be gaps in the defenses around a person or thing, or the specific flaws an attacker can exploit to reduce a system's security, where the countable form is the usual one.
vulnerabilities is a form of vulnerability
vulnerability, noun: The state of being open to attack or injury, whether physical or emotional, or of being weak and poorly defended. Full entry
- Forms
- vulnerabilityvulnerabilities plural
- Spelling
- vulnerability → vulnerabilities: change y to i, add -es
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