the quality of being vulnerable (= able to be easily hurtinfluencedor attacked)or something that is vulnerable:
You want a doctor who understands the patient's vulnerability.
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Meaning of vulnerability in English
(Definition of vulnerability from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of vulnerability
vulnerability
Predicting depression in women : the role of past and present vulnerability.
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For examplepre-adaptation to cold may protect against subsequent exposure to ionizing radiation (positive acclimation)but may increase vulnerability to hypoxia (negative acclimation).
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Effectiveness of targeting the vulnerability factors of depression in cognitive therapy.
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Anything that worsens a population's economic well-being has the effect of increasing vulnerability to disease as well as to external pressures.
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The vulnerability is specific to photoreceptors; other retinal neurons appeared resistant to the exposures tested.
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Global inequality also increases the politicaleconomicand environmental vulnerability of especially small states and less developed countriesdue to their lack of financial capacity.
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Our analysis indicates that the overwhelming majority of attacks are the result of malformed input exploiting a software vulnerability of a network-attached process.
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Researchers have begun to trace the key dimensions of such stressbut also to understand individual and family differences that may moderate vulnerability to stress.
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The important question is exactly how much surplus production was possiblewhat level of institutional complexity could be maintainedand what vulnerabilities emerged.
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In summarybiological vulnerability to depressive symptoms and disorders appears to be greater in later life compared to midlife.
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It is importantthento study the range of disruptive behaviors and factors that reinforce a young child's vulnerability.
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This transition might therefore provide an opportunity to observe the operation of both vulnerability and protective processes.
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From this basic observation about the vulnerability of unfooted syllablesresearchers have made a variety of specific proposals.
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On other levelsthe two applications of the vulnerability framework revealed interesting commonalities and point to promising possibilities for comparative research.
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Old-age vulnerability is increasingly shaped by the monetary resources and needs of care-recipients as well as caregivers.
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