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INVULNERABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does invulnerability mean?
• INVULNERABILITY (noun)
The noun INVULNERABILITY has 2 senses:
1. having the strength to withstand attack
2. the property of being invulnerable; the property of being incapable of being hurt (physically or emotionally)
Familiarity information: INVULNERABILITY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the strength to withstand attack
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
impregnability; invulnerability
Hypernyms ("invulnerability" is a kind of...):
safety (the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of being invulnerable; the property of being incapable of being hurt (physically or emotionally)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("invulnerability" is a kind of...):
strength (the property of being physically or mentally strong)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "invulnerability"):
immunity (the quality of being unaffected by something)
Antonym:
vulnerability (susceptibility to injury or attack)
Derivation:
invulnerable (immune to attack; impregnable)
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