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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Verwundbarkeit

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Verwundbarkeit

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Vulnerability/ˌvʌl.nər.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Das System weist eine kritische Verwundbarkeit auf."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

    "She showed great courage by exposing her vulnerability to the team."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin vulnerabilis ('woundable'), stemming from Latin vulnus ('a wound'). Entering the English language in the mid-17th century, it initially retained its literal physical sense of being susceptible to injury before evolving in modern psychological and sociological discourse to encompass emotional exposure and openness.

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