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Fragility vs Vulnerability - What's the difference?

fragility | vulnerability |

As nouns the difference between fragility and vulnerability

is that fragility is the condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility while vulnerability is susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.

fragility

English

Noun

(fragilities)
  • The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
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    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].}}
  • Weakness; feebleness.
  • (obsolete) Liability to error and sin; frailty.

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    vulnerability

    English

    (wikipedia vulnerability)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
    • The country recognized their defence vulnerability after an airplane landed in front of the central square without any consequences.
  • (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

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