Usually means: Inability to protect oneself adequately.
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  1. defencelessness: Collins English Dictionary
  2. defencelessness: Vocabulary.com
  3. defencelessness: Wordnik
  4. defencelessness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. defencelessness: Wiktionary
  6. defencelessness: Dictionary.com
  7. defencelessness: Rhymezone
  8. defencelessness: FreeDictionary.org
  9. defencelessness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. defencelessness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The state or condition of being defenceless.

Similar:
unprotectedness, defenselessness, undefendedness, enemylessness, unarmedness, forcelessness, unguardedness, emptyhandedness, armlessness, naturelessness, more...

Opposite:
protection, security, preparedness, fortification, resilience

Types:
vulnerability, helplessness, powerlessness, weakness, exposed, more...

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Similar:
unprotectedness, defenselessness, undefendedness, enemylessness, unarmedness, forcelessness, unguardedness, emptyhandedness, armlessness, naturelessness, more...

Opposite:
protection, security, preparedness, fortification, resilience

Types:
vulnerability, helplessness, powerlessness, weakness, exposed, more...



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