Definition

1. Noun:
   • The state of being unprotected from harmful conditions: The condition of being without shelter or protection, especially from severe weather or danger.
   • The act of revealing or making something visible: The act of showing something that is typically hidden or private.
   • The act of subjecting something to a physical agent: The act of allowing light to reach photographic film or a sensor, or the condition of being subjected to an influence or experience.
   • A single photographic image or the conditions for taking it: A section of photographic film that holds one image, or the amount of light allowed to act on it.
   • The aspect or direction something faces: The position of a building or window relative to the points of the compass.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • The hikers suffered from exposure after getting lost in the snowstorm.
  • The newspaper's exposure of the corruption scandal led to several arrests.
  • Long-term exposure to loud noise can damage your hearing.
  • This photograph is perfect; you used the correct exposure.
  • The living room has a southern exposure, so it gets sun all day.

Advanced Usage

• "Public exposure": The state of being made known to the public, often in an unfavorable context.

  • The scandal resulted in his public exposure and resignation.

• "Risk exposure": (Finance) The degree to which an investor or organization is open to potential financial loss.

  • The company reduced its risk exposure in foreign markets.

Variants and Related Words

• Expose (verb): To make something visible or known.

  • The documentary aimed to expose the truth.

• Overexposure (noun): Excessive exposure, especially to light in photography or to public attention.

  • The celebrity's overexposure in the media made people tired of her.

• Underexposure (noun): Insufficient exposure, especially to light in photography.

  • The photo was too dark due to underexposure.

Synonyms

• Disclosure: The act of making new or secret information known.
• Revelation: A surprising and previously unknown fact that is made known.
• Vulnerability: The quality of being easily hurt or attacked.

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Expose to: To subject someone or something to a particular influence or condition.
  • Parents should not expose children to violent television programs.

Related Idioms

• "To die of exposure": To die from the effects of being outside in severe weather without protection.

  • The explorers nearly died of exposure on the mountain.

• "To fear exposure": To be afraid that a hidden truth or secret will be revealed.

  • The politician feared exposure of his past mistakes.

Noun

1. abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)
2. presentation to view in an open or public manner
   • the exposure of his anger was shocking
3. the act of exposing film to light
4. a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
5. the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate
   • he used the wrong exposure
6. the state of being vulnerable or exposed
   • his vulnerability to litigation
   • his exposure to ridicule
7. aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces
   • the studio had a northern exposure
8. the disclosure of something secret
   • they feared exposure of their campaign plans
9. the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience
   • she denounced the exposure of children to pornography
10. vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain;
    • exposure to the weather or they died from exposure