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Squeamish vs Vulnerability - What's the difference?

squeamish | vulnerability |

As an adjective squeamish

is easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous.

As a noun vulnerability is

(uncountable) susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.

squeamish

English

Alternative forms

* sweamish, swaimish (dialectal) * squeimish, squemish, squeamous (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous
    • He might have made a good doctor, had he not been so squeamish about the sight of blood.

    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

    • Related terms

    * (l)

    Antonyms

    * (l)