insecurity

insecure | American Dictionary

insecure
adjective
us/ˌɪn·sɪˈkjʊər/

insecureadjective (NOT CONFIDENT)

(of people) lacking confidence and doubting their own abilities:
Eleanor was shy and insecure as a child.

insecureadjective (NOT SAFE)

(of objects or situations) not fixed or safe:
The stairs seemed kind of rickety and insecure.

Examples of insecure

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If the threat or use of force makes states insecure, realist folklore posits that they should increase their power.
The egocentrically insecure are more likely than the egocentrically secure to abstain, perhaps out of protest.
Risk, uncertainty and competition have produced insecure, ephemeral, project-based collaboration.
Most striking, senior, urban members were more likely to defect from the party, not when they were insecure, but when they were electorally strong.
They felt that insecure land tenure and political cronyism were creating financial and even political problems.
People are feeling insecure; they want their home to be a fortress.
The authors conclude that assessing highly insecure attachment style in the clinical context could beneficially influence choice of therapeutic intervention.
Most ill nevermarried women were in unreliable care situations and depended upon insecure intra-generational kin support and non-kin assistance.
Instead, the one time gain the ruler made from their sale offered an immediate advantage insecure tribal leaders could not ignore.
Fewer than one-half of proprietors felt secure ; just over 27 per cent had mixed feelings and 29 per cent stated that they felt insecure.
Such experiences have made them insecure in their work with music.
There were land transfers before this emergence, and even a sort of land market, but these were hampered, restricted and insecure.
The children of parents who were unresolved regarding their child's diagnoses were three times as likely to have an insecure attachment.
Farmers with insecure rights to land exhibit many different types of investment behaviour.
Anxiety in adolescence was associated with an insecure attachment history in infancy that appeared to exert its influence via negative relationship representations.
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