Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Insecurity

Insecurity , noun

[Prefix in- not + security: compare Late Latin insecuritas, French insecurite.]

1.
The condition or quality of being insecure; lack of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt.
2.
The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; lack of confidence.
With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects... unto arbitrary calculations. — Sir T. Browne
A time of insecurity, when interests of all sorts become objects of speculation. — Burke