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" Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability."
Leslie Morgan Steiner

Meaning of "culpability" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF CULPABILITY

ˌkʌlpəˈbɪlɪtɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CULPABILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Culpability is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CULPABILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Culpability

Culpability descends from the Latin concept of fault. The concept of culpability is intimately tied up with notions of agency, freedom, and free will. All are commonly held to be necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for culpability. In explanations and predictions of human action and inaction, culpability is a measure of the degree to which an agent, such as a person, can be held morally or legally responsible. Culpability marks the dividing line between moral evil, like murder, for which someone may be held responsible and natural evil, like earthquakes, for which no one can be held responsible.

Definition of culpability in the English dictionary

The definition of culpability in the dictionary is responsibility; guilt.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CULPABILITY

ability · accessibility · accountability · availability · capability · compatibility · disability · durability · eligibility · flexibility · inability · liability · mobility · nobility · possibility · probability · reliability · responsibility · stability · visibility

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CULPABILITY

culmen · culmiferous · culminant · culminate · culminating · culmination · culotte · culottes · culpa · culpable · culpable homicide · culpableness · culpably · culpae · culpatory · Culpeper · culprit · culs-de-sac · cult

WORDS THAT END LIKE CULPABILITY

agility · credibility · facility · feasibility · fertility · functionality · hostility · humility · inevitability · instability · merchantability · profitability · suitability · susceptibility · sustainability · tranquility · usability · utility · variability · versatility · vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of culpability in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CULPABILITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «culpability» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «culpability» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CULPABILITY

Find out the translation of culpability to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of culpability from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «culpability» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

罪责
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

culpabilidad
570 millions of speakers
en

English

culpability
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

दोषी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ذنب
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

виновность
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

culpabilidade
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

নিন্দনীয়তা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

culpabilité
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Kesakitan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Schuld
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

有責性
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

유죄
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Culpability
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phạm tội
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

குற்றச்சாட்டிலிருந்து
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

दोषीपणा
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

suçluluk
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

colpevolezza
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

winy
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

винність
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

culpabilitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ενοχή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skuld
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

culpability
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Culpa
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of culpability

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CULPABILITY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of culpability
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about culpability

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2 QUOTES WITH «CULPABILITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word culpability.
1
Roger Mahony
It's hard to determine where lies culpability.
2
Leslie Morgan Steiner
Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CULPABILITY»

Discover the use of culpability in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to culpability and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sex, Culpability, and the Defence of Provocation
This book explores how the process of judgment in a criminal trial involves not only the drawing of inferences from the facts of a particular case, but also operates to deliver a narrative.
Danielle Tyson, 2013
2
Harm and Culpability
This volume draws together essays, from a number of leading authorities, which identify areas of the modern criminal law where there are significant conceptual difficulties.
A. P. Simester, A. T. H. Smith, 1996
3
Alcoholism: Genetic Culpability Or Social Irresponsibility? ...
Representing the social responsibility side of the debate, Marshall (U. of the West Indies, Trinidad) presents his sociological and methodological arguments against the genetic causality hypothesis of the disease model of alcohol abuse and ...
Ronald Marshall, 2001
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Psychiatry and Criminal Culpability
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF THE CHILD —Theodore H. Blau Over twenty-five years in the making and the result of examinations of over four thousand children, this book is a comprehensive guide to performing psychological examinations ...
Ralph Slovenko, 1995
5
Between Incompetence and Culpability: Assessing the ...
Sugihara's aim in both instances is to reevaluate just how costly this error by the Foreign Ministry has been for Japan, and to show how its cover-up and mishandling have distorted postwar Japanese diplomacy.Sugihara demonstrates how the ...
Seishirō Sugihara, 1997
6
The Secret Politics of Our Desires: Innocence, Culpability ...
This book examines the enormous industry of Indian popular cinema. It provokes a thinking of cinema as political in the widest sense - from its importance in ideas of nation and national cultural formation to class and gender.
Ashis Nandy, 1998
7
Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law
How should we assess Maggie's culpability for so intending? Perhaps there is a solution to this problem of the conditionality of intentions. For example, perhaps we should assess the culpability of the actor's intention by asking what probability  ...
Larry Alexander, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, 2009
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Free East Timor: Australia's Culpability in East Timor's ...
'This book is a testimony for the historical record, to document the actions of some of those who did everything they could to help East Timor - average everyday people ashamed of their Government's indecent obsession with Indonesia and its ...
Jim Aubrey, 1998
9
Attorneys' and Jurors' Perceptions of Juvenile Offenders' ...
Factors affecting attorneys' and mock jurors' perceptions of a juvenile offender's culpability were investigated.
Catherine Rieman Camilletti, 2008
10
Corporate Misconduct: The Legal, Societal, and Management Issues
Because by the commission's own admission it had little adequate data from which to derive historic norms, the basis on which the commission calculated these amounts is highly uncertain. The culpability multiplier can increase the fine by as ...
Margaret P. Spencer, Ronald R. Sims, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CULPABILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term culpability is used in the context of the following news items.
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On Cosby, now there is no doubt
But there is a substantial difference between legal and moral culpability, especially in cases of sexual abuse. Even in cases where an abuser ... «Concord Monitor, Jul 15»
2
N.J. officers not liable in death of lawyer in county courthouse, judge …
... find that Gloucester Defendants' actions demonstrate an intent to cause harm or a degree of culpability that shocks the conscience," he wrote. «NJ.com, Jul 15»
3
Wauconda man gets 8 years in home invasion, shooting case
... Brito-Ramirez, who was not identified as the shooter in the case but is held under the same culpability under state accountability laws. «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
4
Jailed bus driver 'deserves every day' of prison term after death of …
... enough account of Johnson's medical condition, saying this 'reduced his moral culpability' because he had cognitive disabilities as a result. «Yorkshire Evening Post, Jul 15»
5
7 years after girl is killed in drive-by shooting, woman has parole …
But when asked to talk about her participation in the shooting, Johnson, now 22, indicated her culpability didn't match the justice system's ... «Deseret News, Jul 15»
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A Fired-Up Jose Antonio Vargas Wants the Media to Start Calling …
He pushed back on some of what Burnett said about “sanctuary cities” and had some questions about the culpability of ICE in not detaining the ... «Mediaite, Jul 15»
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DeKalb store owner pleads guilty to 'trafficking in food stamps'
The now-former owner of a DeKalb County convenience store pleaded guilty Tuesday to “trafficking in food stamps,” admitting culpability in a ... «Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jul 15»
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Close Illinois' homicide loophole
In Section 202, dealing with various levels of criminal culpability, the Model Penal Code says: "When recklessness suffices to establish an ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
9
Congress for two separate CBI inquiries into Vyapam scam
Detailing the role played by Chouhan, he said it left “no doubt about the CM's complicity, culpability and collusion” in the Vyapam Scam. This he ... «India.com, Jul 15»
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Letter: Supporters needed with climate change action
That is where Pope Francis came to his belief of human culpability. There are corporate leaders who believe they could be hurt financially by ... «Topeka Capital Journal, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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