sense of insecurity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandinsecurity
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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insecurity
noun
uk/ˌɪn.sɪˈkjʊə.rə.ti/us/ˌɪn.səˈkjʊr.ə.t̬i/
a feeling of lacking confidence and not being sure of your own abilities or of whether people like ...
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(Definition ofsenseandinsecurityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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And almost every leader seems haunted by a relentlesssenseofinsecurity.
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This kind of experience often seems to generate a naggingsenseofinsecurity, of not having control over one's life.
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Similarly, thissenseofinsecuritymay colour one's perceptions of economic performance.
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From the child's perspective, parenting disparities may be experienced as a family "lacuna," eventually creating asenseofinsecurity, anxiety, sadness, and emptiness, which are internalizing spectrum symptoms.
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Item 4 constitutes what we have provisionally labelled 'risk-taking' which has the effect of turning their nascentsenseofinsecurityinto its opposite by the welling-up of a euphoric feeling.
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The work ethic is strong with the obligation to perform paid work seen as paramount and yet there is an increasingsenseofinsecurityin many sectors.
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At the same time, however, this heightenedsenseofinsecurityand the concomitant ambivalence towards the gang were the consequence of more than just their crack consumption.
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You see vast rural areas and empty areas of town lose their quality of life through ageing and dereliction, decay and asenseofinsecurity.
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The farmers are doing their best, but they feel asenseofinsecurityand uncertainty.
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Our economic solution is also relevant here, because severity in administration is almost always the product of asenseofinsecurity.
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I understood him to say that it is partly due to asenseofinsecuritycaused by the growing number of rankers.
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There has been growing in the industry a tremendoussenseofinsecurity.
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They seem to have a deep-rootedsenseofinsecurity, with a massive inferiority complex.
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Continuity and security rest upon approval and loyalty and not upon safeguards based on anysenseofinsecurity.
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This could have grown from asenseofinsecurityat the top which has filtered down and has become a damaging influence.
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I have the firm feeling that one of the major causes of it is a preliminarysenseofinsecurityin the home.
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Even if people find jobs, there is a newsenseofinsecurityabout those jobs.
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We do not want our mental health service to be something of which people are frightened and which spreads asenseofinsecurity.
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Surely we should by now have learned what thatsenseofinsecuritycan mean?
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