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CULPABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does culpability mean?
• CULPABILITY (noun)
The noun CULPABILITY has 1 sense:
1. a state of guilt
Familiarity information: CULPABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of guilt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
blameworthiness; culpability; culpableness
Hypernyms ("culpability" is a kind of...):
guilt; guiltiness (the state of having committed an offense)
Derivation:
culpable (deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious)
Context examples
No blame attached to me: I am as free from culpability as any one of you three.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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