culpability

English

Etymology

From Middle French culpabilité.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkʌlpəˈbɪləti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

culpability (countable and uncountable, plural culpabilities)

1. The degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offence.

Derived terms

• inculpability

Related terms

• culpable

Translations

blameworthiness

Arabic: مَلُومِيَّة f (malūmiyya), تَأْثِيم m (taʔṯīm) Czech: zavinění n, provinění n, vina (cs) f Finnish: rangaistavuus (fi), syyllisyys (fi) German: Schuldhaftigkeit f, Strafbarkeit (de) f Hungarian: bűnösség (hu), vétkesség (hu) Italian: colpevolezza (it) f, torto (it) m Latin: culpa f Middle English: blame Ottoman Turkish: صوچ (suç), ذنب (zenb) Portuguese: culpabilidade f Serbo-Croatian: krivica (sh) Ukrainian: винува́тість f (vynuvátistʹ)