responsabilità
Italian edit
Alternative forms edit
- responabilità (misspelling)
Etymology edit
From responsabile + -ità, modeled after similar formation of French responsabilité and English responsibility in the late 18th century.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
responsabilità f
- responsibility (duty for which someone is accountable)
- responsibility (state of being accountable)
- Antonym: irresponsabilità
- liability
- blame, fault
- Synonym: colpa
- gli hanno dato la piena responsabilità per la crisi
- they blamed him fully for the crisis
- (literally, “they assigned the full blame to him for the crisis”)
Further reading edit
- responsabilità in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Piedmontese edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
responsabilità f