insecurity

insecurity
    n 1: the state of being subject to danger or injury [ant:
         {security}]
    2: the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and
       insecure
    

Insecurity \In`se*cu"ri*ty\, n.; 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.
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   2. The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; lack of
      confidence.
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            With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects . .
            . unto arbitrary calculations.        --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.
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            A time of insecurity, when interests of all sorts
            become objects of speculation.        --Burke.
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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