blameworthiness, guilt
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Culpability Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The state of being culpable.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutThe state of being culpable.
culpability
\cul`pa*bil"i*ty\ (k?l`p?-b?l`?-t?), n.; pl. culpabilities (-t&?;z). [cf. f. culpabilité.] the state of being culpable.
Noun
1. a state of guilt
(synonym) blameworthiness, culpableness
(hypernym) guilt, guiltiness
Culpability Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Culpability descends from the Latin concept of fault (culpa). The concept of culpability is intimately tied up with notions of agency, freedom, and free will. All are commonly held to be necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for culpability.
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