SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sense of responsibility mean? 

• SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY (noun)
  The noun SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. an awareness of your obligations

  Familiarity information: SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An awareness of your obligations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("sense of responsibility" is a kind of...):

sense (a general conscious awareness)

 Context examples 

I feel as if it were not for me to record, even though this manuscript is intended for no eyes but mine, how hard I worked at that tremendous short-hand, and all improvement appertaining to it, in my sense of responsibility to Dora and her aunts.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)