exposure

exposure is a 8-letter English word with 14 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt.
2. noun. The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience.
3. noun. Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc.
4. noun. The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.
5. noun. the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience

   "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"

6. noun. abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)
7. noun. presentation to view in an open or public manner

   "the exposure of his anger was shocking"

8. noun. the act of exposing film to light
9. noun. a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material

   Synonyms: photo, photograph, pic, picture

10. noun. vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain or "they died from exposure"

    "exposure to the weather"

11. noun. aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces

    "the studio had a northern exposure"

12. noun. the disclosure of something secret

    "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"

13. noun. the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate

    "he used the wrong exposure"

14. noun. the state of being vulnerable or exposed

    "his vulnerability to litigation"

    "his exposure to ridicule"

    Synonyms: vulnerability

Synonyms

photo, photograph, pic, picture, vulnerability

Common word forms

exposures

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