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Vulnerary vs Vulnerability - What's the difference?

vulnerary | vulnerability |

As nouns the difference between vulnerary and vulnerability

is that vulnerary is a healing drug or other agent used in healing and treating wounds while vulnerability is (uncountable) susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.

As an adjective vulnerary

is useful or used for healing wounds; healing, curative.

vulnerary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Useful or used for healing wounds; healing, curative.
  • * 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe :
    • Rebecca examined the wound, and having applied to it such vulnerary remedies as her art prescribed, informed her father that [...] there was nothing to fear for his guest’s life.
  • * 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 422 (footnote):
    • Take, for example, the famous vulnerary ointment attributed to Paracelsus.
  • (archaic, rare) Causing wounds, wounding.

    • Usage notes

    * Restricted in modern use primarily to works on ethnobotany and traditional medicine.

    Noun

    (vulneraries)
  • A healing drug or other agent used in healing and treating wounds.

    • See also

    * vulnerable

    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

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    Antonyms

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