Definition for Insecurity:

• The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; want of confidence.

Synonyms for Insecurity:

• n.

  •anxiety (noun)
  • vacillation,
  • uncertainty,
  • indecision,
  • self-doubt,
  • hesitancy.
  •danger (noun)
  • hot potato,
  • risk,
  • exigency,
  • crisis,
  • dynamite,
  • in security,
  • precipice,
  • Uncertainties,
  • Endangerment,
  • emergency,
  • clouds,
  • risky business,
  • slipperiness,
  • vulnerability,
  • threat,
  • hazard,
  • Imperilment,
  • venture,
  • thin ice,
  • Exigencies,
  • pitfall,
  • menace,
  • exposure,
  • insecurity,
  • probability,
  • storm,
  • possibility,
  • double trouble.
  •diffidence (noun)
  • fear,
  • backwardness,
  • bashfulness,
  • meekness,
  • timorousness,
  • mousiness,
  • modesty,
  • self-consciousness,
  • hesitation,
  • constraint,
  • reserve,
  • reluctance,
  • unassertiveness,
  • humility,
  • sheepishness,
  • timidity.
  •peril (noun)
  • openness.
  •precariousness (noun)
  • pre cariousnesses,
  • pre-cariousness,
  • pre cariousness,
  • pre-cariousnesses.
  •qualm (noun)
  • apprehension,
  • compunction,
  • conscience,
  • perturbation,
  • Misdoubt,
  • regret,
  • nervousness,
  • suspicion,
  • presentiment,
  • uneasiness,
  • misgiving,
  • unease,
  • mistrust,
  • remorse,
  • agitation,
  • scruple,
  • pang,
  • foreboding,
  • remonstrance,
  • demur,
  • objection,
  • twinge.
  •ricketiness (noun)
  • wobblinesses.
  •suspense (noun)
  • dilemma,
  • indecisiveness,
  • eagerness,
  • impatience,
  • perplexity,
  • chiller,
  • expectation,
  • expectancy,
  • tension,
  • confusion.
  •uncertainty (noun)
  • incertitude.
  •unsteadiness (noun)
  • un steadinesses,
  • un-steadinesses,
  • un steadiness,
  • un-steadiness.
  •unsureness (noun)
  • un-surenesses,
  • un surenesses,
  • un sureness,
  • un-sureness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • insecureness,
  • unsureness.
  •
  • precariousness,
  • shakiness,
  • doubt,
  • unsteadiness.

Paraphrases for Insecurity:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    precarity.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    fragility, unrest, volatility, disquiet, turmoil, scarcity, ambiguity, certainty, suspense, lack, disturbance.

• Other Related

  • Noun, plural
    Uncertainties.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    precariousness, instability, vulnerability, unease, uneasiness, destabilization, diffidence, turbulence.

Antonyms for Insecurity:

• n.

  • state
    security.
  • Other antonyms:
    fastness, safety, fixedness, safeguard, shelter, substantiality, protection, immunity, steadiness, defense.

Insecurity Sentence Examples:

• In this insecurity he has hit on the idea of forming a heroic bodyguard.

• These superstitions may reasonably enough be considered as for the most part dramatisations of a sense of the sea's insecurity.

Hypernym for Insecurity:

• n.

  • state
    insecureness.

Hyponym for Insecurity:

• n.

  • feeling
    anxiety.
  • state
    danger.