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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for insecurity:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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