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.

   Synonyms: guiltiness; see also Thesaurus:guilt

   criminal culpability

   The investigation established his culpability in the fraud.

   Questions of legal culpability remain unresolved.

2. The amount of liability for a fault or wrongdoing.

   degree of culpability

   establish culpability

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
• Portuguese: culpabilidade (pt) f
• Russian: виновность (ru) f (vinovnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: krivica (sh)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: صوچ (suç), ذنب (zenb)

• Ukrainian: винува́тість f (vynuvátistʹ)