Crossword clues for insecurity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insecurity \In`se*cu"ri*ty\, n.; pl. Insecurities. [Pref. in- not + security : cf. LL. insecuritas, F. insecurite.]
The condition or quality of being insecure; lack of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt.
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The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; lack of confidence.
With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects . . . unto arbitrary calculations.
--Sir T. Browne.A time of insecurity, when interests of all sorts become objects of speculation.
--Burke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Medieval Latin insecuritas, from insecurus (see insecure). Specific psychological sense is by 1917.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A lack of security, uncertainty 2 The state of being subject to danger; vulnerability
WordNet
n. the state of being subject to danger or injury [ant: security]
the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure
Wikipedia
Insecurity may refer to:
- Lack of security in an objective sense:
- Risk
- Data security
- Computer security
- Emotional insecurity in psychology
"Insecurity" is the tenth episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated sitcom South Park, and the 233rd episode of the series overall. It aired on Comedy Central in the United States on October 10, 2012.
The story concerns Kyle Broflovski's belief that his mother is having an affair with a UPS delivery man. When public suspicion falls upon the delivery man, package delivery to the neighborhood is threatened, and Eric Cartman purchases a home security system in response. The episode parodies security alarm systems, and also contains references to Amazon.com and the film The Dark Knight Rises.
Usage examples of "insecurity".
So absolutely peaceful were its surroundings that the vigilance of its inmates was relaxed, and during the daytime, at least, they came and went at will, without a thought of insecurity.
Even insecurity, though you have to come to Curbstone for that, and be someone like Judson to boot.
The feeling of numb, nameless terror, rootless desolation, the intolerable sick anguish of homelessness, insecurity, and homesickness, against which he had fought since coming to Paris, and which he had been ashamed and afraid to admit, was now instantly banished.
But I was leaning toward a conclusion that she had an overdetermined intellectual and professional arrogance that had been cemented by some monumental insecurity that she was struggling to tame as a lion tamer controls a big cat.
How could he sleep so soundly, with the rotors beating above them, and the insecurity of being suspended above the wild landscape below.
With an insensibility to danger which I cannot call to mind without shuddering, we threw ourselves down the depths of the ravine, startling its savage solitudes with the echoes produced by the falling fragments of rock we every moment dislodged from their places, careless of the insecurity of our footing, and reckless whether the slight roots and twigs we clutched at sustained us for the while, or treacherously yielded to our grasp.
Marlon Sykes had his number, all right, had his every shame and insecurity mapped out.
Germany's insecurity before 1940 created an extreme chauvinism, leading to wars of conquest and to gas chambers.
She endeavoured to judge him kindly, but a feeling of insecurity in reference to his affairs struck her at once and made her heart cold.
A general trait of the ayatollahs was supposed to be their confusion and insecurity.
Cairns knew that if he dwelt on the strangeness of the sight, the feeling of unreality could make him physically nauseous: la nausée, Sartre's old existential insecurity -- Cairns wondered, not for the first time, how the philosopher would have coped with a situation as metaphysically disturbing as this.
Not a facade of cockiness to hide deeper insecurities, but a true self-belief and measured evaluation of what she could and could not accomplish.
Such congestions are merely the measure of the general inaccessibility and insecurity and costliness of contemporary life, an awkward transitory phase in the first beginnings of the travel age of mankind.
Our Contentments stand upon the tops of Pyramids ready to fall off, and the insecurity of their enjoyments abrupteth our Tranquillities.
They thought that to be masculine, they had to be copulative dynamos, and it was largely to prop up their insecure masculinity that they resorted to sexual display, whereas, in fact, it was their relatively mild interest in actual physical contact that was largely the source of that insecurity.