Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Insecurity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Insecurity.
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- noun
insecurity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being exposed to risk or anxiety
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Examples
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Although I agree with a positive relation between the spam and the rate of insecureness, I think that it is a logarithmic relationship instead of exponential.
But I'm just fine. Right, Honey? HONEY?!? Jessica Hagy 2007
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The reward for making our leaders accountable for their actions is simple -- confusion will bring awareness, insecureness will produce security, and taking a position of dissent will birth a unified force of checks and balances that will embolden peace and justice with the sanctity of trust.
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The bars and rods quiver, the whole lively fabric is full of a tremor, but one that conveys no sense of insecureness.
Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923
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"What strikes one is the insecureness of the Liberals 'hold upon office and upon public favour; the probability of the return, perhaps even more than once, of their adversaries to office, before that final and happy consummation is reached -- the permanent establishment of Liberalism in power."
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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“What strikes one is the insecureness of the Liberals 'hold upon office and upon public favour; the probability of the return, perhaps even more than once, of their adversaries to office, before that final and happy consummation is reached ” the permanent establishment of Liberalism in power.”
Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904
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