unsafety

[ uhn-seyf-tee ]

noun

1. unsafe state or condition; exposure to danger or risk; insecurity.

Other Words From

• un·safetied adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of unsafety¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; un- ¹ + safety

Example Sentences

"I've never heard of a situation in which parliament intervenes to declare the facts - the safety or unsafety of Rwanda - to change the facts from those that have been declared by the courts to be correct," he said.

From BBC

For the worse, the unsafety of public venues in general.

From Los Angeles Times

“And hopefully in the next year that safety valve, or unsafety valve, won’t be available to people and that’s hugely important.”

From Los Angeles Times

“In the wild,” Brosschot and his colleagues wrote in a 2018 paper, “organisms have survived not by waiting for more evidence of threat but instead by erring on the side of caution.... Those who fled at the first sign of unsafety continued to live and pass their genes.”

From Scientific American

The Generalized Unsafety Theory of Stress co-written by psychophysiologist Julian Thayer links the unconsciously perceived unsafety of prolonged stressors like low social status, early life adversity or loneliness to hypervigilance that increases the odds of developing heart disease.

From Scientific American