Exposure

The state of being vulnerable or exposed

Synonyms

Vulnerability

Type of

Danger

Derivation

Expose

Examples

His exposure to ridicule

A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

Abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open)

Aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces

Examples

The studio had a northern exposure

Presentation to view in an open or public manner

Derivation

Expose

Examples

The exposure of his anger was shocking

The act of exposing film to light

The act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience

Type of

Influence

Derivation

Expose

Examples

She denounced the exposure of children to pornography

The disclosure of something secret

Derivation

Expose

Examples

They feared exposure of their campaign plans

The intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate

Type of

Light unit

Derivation

Expose

Examples

He used the wrong exposure

Vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain

Derivation

Expose

Examples

Exposure to the weather

They died from exposure