ANSWERABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does answerableness mean? 

• ANSWERABLENESS (noun)
  The noun ANSWERABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. responsibility to someone or for some activity

  Familiarity information: ANSWERABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANSWERABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Responsibility to someone or for some activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

accountability; answerability; answerableness

Hypernyms ("answerableness" is a kind of...):

responsibility; responsibleness (a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct)

Derivation:

answerable (morally or legally responsible to a higher authority)