What's the difference between invulnerability and invulnerableness?
Invulnerability
Definition:
(n.) Quality or state of being invulnerable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Young adolescents typically operate under a state of cognitive egocentricism or "personal fable" such that they perceive themselves invulnerable to many risks, such as pregnancy.
(2) These apparently invulnerable adolescents were compared to the rest of the "user" sample on the remaining items of the questionnaire.
(3) The concept of heightened resilience or invulnerability in young profoundly stressed children is developed in terms of its implications for a psychology of wellness and for primary prevention in mental health.
(4) Increasing the knowledge of adolescents and young adults is not easy despite enormous media exposure; many engage in high-risk behaviors, believing themselves to be invulnerable to infection.
(5) His reputation as an advocate of austerity is invulnerable.
(6) "Women-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power," Plath writes.
(7) Catgut sutures proved susceptible to rapid proteolytic digestion throughout the gastrointestinal tract, whereas Dexon and Vicryl were invulnerable.
(8) Although the human brain stem is considered relatively invulnerable to ischemic anoxia, evaluation of 16 cases of a single acute asphyxial episode either at or following birth indicates that such involvement is a frequent and characteristic aspect of anoxic encephalopathy in the infant.
(9) Implicit in massage is the idea that a child's health is preserved by fostering its strength and invulnerability.
(10) Regimes that had seemed invulnerable can quickly fall.
(11) Experienced pilots obtained higher scores on a measure of "personal invulnerability" from factors commonly associated with accidents.
(12) It is hoped that this analysis will provoke others to consider the "invulnerable" among the abused and neglected so that we might ultimately learn what works to protect them.
(13) Various substituents in the ring are compatible with activity, though ortho-substitution, except by fluorine, renders the nitrile invulnerable to attack.
(14) In general, it explains, "hegemonic masculinity is characterised by attributes such as: striving for power and dominance, aggressiveness, courage, independency, efficiency, rationality, competitiveness, success, activity, control and invulnerability; not perceiving or admitting anxiety, problems and burdens; and withstanding danger, difficulties and threats".
(15) The data also support the hypothesis that selective focus is a source of the illusion of invulnerability.
(16) College students are often viewed as being at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, due to their needs to engage in exploratory behavior and their needs for peers' social approval, and their sense of invulnerability.
(17) The invulnerable students reported generally better physical and mental health and academic achievement.
(18) Seeing oneself as invulnerable to future negative events was accentuated among happy Ss and attenuated among sad Ss.
(19) The critical role of specific types of mastery skill development in the treatment of sexually abused children is explored, and defense mechanisms of "invulnerable children," who function adequately despite trauma and stress, are described.
(20) Factors such as sexual and drug experimentation, risk taking, and sense of invulnerability so characteristic of adolescence put adolescents at special risk for human immunodeficiency virus.
Invulnerableness
Definition:
(n.) Invulnerability.
Example Sentences:
(1) Young adolescents typically operate under a state of cognitive egocentricism or "personal fable" such that they perceive themselves invulnerable to many risks, such as pregnancy.
(2) These apparently invulnerable adolescents were compared to the rest of the "user" sample on the remaining items of the questionnaire.
(3) The concept of heightened resilience or invulnerability in young profoundly stressed children is developed in terms of its implications for a psychology of wellness and for primary prevention in mental health.
(4) Increasing the knowledge of adolescents and young adults is not easy despite enormous media exposure; many engage in high-risk behaviors, believing themselves to be invulnerable to infection.
(5) His reputation as an advocate of austerity is invulnerable.
(6) "Women-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power," Plath writes.
(7) Catgut sutures proved susceptible to rapid proteolytic digestion throughout the gastrointestinal tract, whereas Dexon and Vicryl were invulnerable.
(8) Although the human brain stem is considered relatively invulnerable to ischemic anoxia, evaluation of 16 cases of a single acute asphyxial episode either at or following birth indicates that such involvement is a frequent and characteristic aspect of anoxic encephalopathy in the infant.
(9) Implicit in massage is the idea that a child's health is preserved by fostering its strength and invulnerability.
(10) Regimes that had seemed invulnerable can quickly fall.
(11) Experienced pilots obtained higher scores on a measure of "personal invulnerability" from factors commonly associated with accidents.
(12) It is hoped that this analysis will provoke others to consider the "invulnerable" among the abused and neglected so that we might ultimately learn what works to protect them.
(13) Various substituents in the ring are compatible with activity, though ortho-substitution, except by fluorine, renders the nitrile invulnerable to attack.
(14) In general, it explains, "hegemonic masculinity is characterised by attributes such as: striving for power and dominance, aggressiveness, courage, independency, efficiency, rationality, competitiveness, success, activity, control and invulnerability; not perceiving or admitting anxiety, problems and burdens; and withstanding danger, difficulties and threats".
(15) The data also support the hypothesis that selective focus is a source of the illusion of invulnerability.
(16) College students are often viewed as being at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, due to their needs to engage in exploratory behavior and their needs for peers' social approval, and their sense of invulnerability.
(17) The invulnerable students reported generally better physical and mental health and academic achievement.
(18) Seeing oneself as invulnerable to future negative events was accentuated among happy Ss and attenuated among sad Ss.
(19) The critical role of specific types of mastery skill development in the treatment of sexually abused children is explored, and defense mechanisms of "invulnerable children," who function adequately despite trauma and stress, are described.
(20) Factors such as sexual and drug experimentation, risk taking, and sense of invulnerability so characteristic of adolescence put adolescents at special risk for human immunodeficiency virus.