Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Culpability |
CulpabilityNoun1. A state of guilt. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "culpability" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: CulpabilitySynonyms: blameworthiness (n), culpableness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Guilt | Noun: guilt, guiltiness; culpability; criminality, criminousness; deviation from rectitude; (improbity); sinfulness; (vice). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Culpability |
| English words defined with "culpability": Culpabilities. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Bangladesh | However, in some instances where there was evidence of police culpability for killings, the authorities took action. (references) |
India | According to the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee, the NHRC had evidence of police culpability in several cases. (references) | |
Mexico | On February 12, he was brought before another Public Security Ministry official, who allegedly demanded $1,667 (15,000 pesos) for his release, which Rayon agreed to pay without admitting culpability. (references) | |
Women | Ghana | Members of the legal community advocate legislation to close loopholes in the FGM law, including extending culpability to family members and others who aid in carrying out FGM and to citizens who commit the crime outside the country's borders. (references) |
Worker Rights | Peru | The worker does not need to prove an employer's culpability in order to obtain compensation for work-related injuries. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | For the first time in history the legal culpability of war makers is being determined. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Culpability" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Culpability" is used about 64 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 64 | 42,009 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
culpability | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "culpability"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fajësi (guiltiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الملومية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | виновност (criminality, guiltiness), осъдителност (blameworthiness, reprehensibility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 有罪 (Culpabilities, Culpable, guilty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | trestuhodnost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | culpabilité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sträflichkeit (wantonness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπαιτιότητα, ενοχή (blame, criminality, culpableness, guilt, guiltiness, implication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vétkesség (culpableness, delinquency, guilt, guiltiness, sinfulness), büntethetőség (culpableness), bűnösség (culpableness, guilt, peccancy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | colpevolezza (conviction, guilt, guiltiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 有罪 (guilt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ゆうざい (guilt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kyndid (guilt), foiljid (blameableness, faultiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulpabilitycay culpabilidade (guiltiness, responsibility). (various references) culpabilitate (guiltiness). (various references) виновность (criminality, guilt, guiltiness). (various references) krivnja, krivica (blame, fault, guilt, guiltiness). (various references) culpabilidad (guiltiness, sinfulness). (various references) skuld (blame, debt, due, fault, guile, guilt, indebtedness, score), brottslighet (crime, criminality, delinquency, delinquent, guilt). (various references) suçluluk (criminality, delinquency, guilt, guiltiness), suç (blame, caper, crime, criminality, delict, delinquency, error, fault, felony, guilt, irregularity, job, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, offense, rap, sin, transgression, wrong), kusur (blame, blemish, cavil, defalcation, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, failing, failure, fault, flaw, freckle, gaff, imperfection, inaccuracy, infirmity, remissness, scar, shortcoming, stigma, taint, vice). (various references) винуватість (criminality), винність (guiltiness). (various references) sự có tội (criminality, culpableness, sinfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Culpability" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: callability, clubbability, cupability. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "culpability" (pronounced ku'lpubi"lutē) |
| 8 | -p u b i" l u t ē | capability. |
| 7 | -u b i" l u t ē | ability, acceptability, accessibility, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, fallibility, feasibility, flammability, flexibility, gullibility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incompatibility, indestructibility, inevitability, infallibility, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, sensibility, stability, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, variability, viability, visibility, vulnerability. |
| 6 | -b i" l u t ē | immobility, mobility, nobility. |
| 5 | -i" l u t ē | agility, civility, docility, ductility, facility, fertility, fragility, futility, gentility, hostility, humility, incivility, infertility, motility, nonutility, senility, sterility, tranquility, utility, versatility, virility, volatility. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | abnormality, accountability, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, credulity, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, equality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, fidelity, finality, formality, frivolity, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, incredulity, individuality, inequality, infidelity, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, polity, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, quality, rationality, reality, seasonality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-i-l-l-p-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: publicity. | |
-3 letters: culpably, lability, pitiably, publicly. | |
-4 letters: ability, albitic, apiculi, aplitic, bacilli, cubital, licitly, paucity, pliably, typical. | |
-5 letters: abulic, acuity, atypic, cullay, italic, lacily, plical, public, tabuli, tibial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
