vulnerability
B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The degree to which a person is exposed to harm or unable to protect their own interests.
His social isolation increased his vulnerability, and the team arranged additional community support.
Law noun
A heightened exposure to harm that may warrant special legal protection.
The court took account of the applicant's particular vulnerability as an unaccompanied minor.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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