Flaw vs Vulnerability - What's the difference?
flaw | vulnerability |
(obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
(obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
* Shakespeare
A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
* South
A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid.
A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
* Milton
* Tennyson
A storm of short duration.
A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
* Dryden
(uncountable) Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
(countable) a specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.
(computing) a weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security
As nouns the difference between flaw and vulnerability
is that flaw is a flake, fragment, or shiver while vulnerability is susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.As a verb flaw
is to add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.flaw
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) flawe, .Noun
(en noun)- There is a flaw in that knife.
- That vase has a flaw .
- This heart / Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws .
- Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?
- a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* tragic flawEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw .
- Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn.
- And deluges of armies from the town / Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw .
Anagrams
* ----vulnerability
English
(wikipedia vulnerability)Noun
- The country recognized their defence vulnerability after an airplane landed in front of the central square without any consequences.