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
• Italian: colpevolezza (it) f, torto (it) m
• Latin: culpa f
• Middle English: blame
• Ottoman Turkish: صوچ (suç), ذنب (zenb)
• Portuguese: culpabilidade f
• Ukrainian: винува́тість f (vynuvátistʹ)