"culpability" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌkʌlpəˈbɪləti/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-culpability.wav Forms: culpabilities [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French culpabilité. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|culpabilité}} Middle French culpabilité Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} culpability (countable and uncountable, plural culpabilities)
  1. The degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offence. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: guiltiness, blameworthiness, culpability, guilt, guiltiness, noninnocence, uninnocence Translations (blameworthiness): مَلُومِيَّة (malūmiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), تَأْثِيم (taʔṯīm) [masculine] (Arabic), zavinění [neuter] (Czech), provinění [neuter] (Czech), vina [feminine] (Czech), rangaistavuus (Finnish), syyllisyys (Finnish), Schuldhaftigkeit [feminine] (German), Strafbarkeit [feminine] (German), bűnösség (Hungarian), vétkesség (Hungarian), colpevolezza [feminine] (Italian), torto [masculine] (Italian), culpa [feminine] (Latin), blame (Middle English), صوچ (suç) (Ottoman Turkish), ذنب (zenb) (Ottoman Turkish), culpabilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), krivica (Serbo-Croatian), винува́тість (vynuvátistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. The amount of liability for a fault or wrongdoing. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-culpability-en-noun-qMa~Bplq
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: inculpability Related terms: culpable

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "blameworthiness",
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