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Definitions: Liability |
LiabilityNoun1. The state of being legally obliged and responsible. 2. An obligation to pay money to another party. 3. The quality of being something that holds you back. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "liability" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Finance | A debt payment of which one must make, as the debtor. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An item of value that is part of the overall debt or obligation of a person or business. For example, a mortgage is a liability of the homeowner/borrower, but the same mortgage is an asset of the savings and loan/lender. At savings institutions, savings deposits and all borrowed money are considered liabilities. Net worth, or regulatory capital, is accounted for as a liability because it is an obligation of the institution to its owners. See asset. (references) | |
Insurance | The condition of being bound in law and justice to do something which may be enforced in the courts. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Liable is often used in a business sense, i.e. limited liability: only having to pay for what you invested if a business goes bankrupt for explanation of this sense see business entity.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Liability."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| LIS | English | Liability Insurance Supplement | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LiabilitySynonyms: financial obligation (n), indebtedness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: asset (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Debt | Noun: debt, obligation, liability, indebtment, debit, score. |
Duty | Noun: duty, what ought to be done, moral obligation, accountableness, liability, onus, responsibility; bounden duty, imperative duty; call, call of duty; accountability. |
Liability | Noun: liability, liableness; possibility, contingency; susceptivity, susceptibility, exposure. |
Money | Remittance;(payment); credit; liability |
Subjection | Service; servitude, servitorship; tendence, employ, tutelage, clientship; liability; constraint; oppression; (severity); yoke; (means of restraint); submission; obedience. |
Tendency | Noun: tendency; aptness, aptitude; proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus, nisus; liability; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift; (direction); conduciveness, conducement; applicability; (utility); subservience; (instrumentality). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Compliance and Liability. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Employer's Liability (1912) Liability Crisis (1994) | |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Equal liability of all to labour. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Such method may take the form, inter alia, of the assumption by the Power to which the territory is ceded of Germany's liability for the German debt held by her nationals. (reference) |
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Health | Another approach to smoking cessation is the nicotine transdermal patch, a skin patch that delivers a relatively constant amount of nicotine to the person wearing it. A research team at NIDA's Division of Intramural Research studied the safety, mechanism of action, and abuse liability of the patch that was consequently approved by FDA. Both nicotine gum and the nicotine patch, as well as other nicotine replacements such as sprays and inhalers, are used to help people fully quit smoking by reducing withdrawal symptoms and preventing relapse while undergoing behavioral treatment. (references) | |
Business | Liability Structure ($k/employee) (references) | |
After the summary table below, a few key vertical liability ratios are highlighted in additional tables. (references) | ||
Certain key vertical analysis liability ratios are highlighted across companies in the comparison group. (references) | ||
Children | Marshall Islands | The law requires teachers, caregivers, and other persons to report instances of child abuse and exempts them from civil or criminal liability as a consequence of making such a report. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Italy | In April Parliament approved a law requiring registration of online information sites and acceptance of liability by site sponsors. (references) |
South Africa | The government-owned SABC, a limited liability company, continues to own and control the majority of the television and radio outlets. (references) | |
Economic History | Switzerland | A branch does not enjoy limited liability. (references) |
Czech Republic | Today, this heritage is both an asset and a liability. (references) | |
Slovak Rep | Between 1 and 50 shareholders may form a limited liability company. (references) | |
Human Rights | Uganda | Police released 88 of the followers after clearing them of criminal liability; the other 5 still were in detention at year's end. (references) |
Russia | Moreover, the new Law on the Status of Judges, approved in December, strives to eliminate subjectivity in the selection of judges, to facilitate access to the judicial profession by minimizing corruption in the appointment process, and to improve the accountability of judges by subjecting them to disciplinary and administrative liability and by introducing age limits. (references) | |
Political Economy | SOUTH AFRICA | The SARB has made strong progress on reducing the liability of its net open forward position (NOFP). (references) |
Trade | India | The importers also needs to provide surety and repayment liability. (references) |
Georgia | A commercial bank may be created in the form of a joint stock or limited liability company. (references) | |
Germany | The tax levied on the business is invoiced to customers, who may deduct it from their own liability. (references) | |
Travel | Morocco | Companies in Morocco may take the form of stock companies or limited liability companies. (references) |
Morocco | These forms are separate legal entities in which shareholder liability is limited to paid-in capital. (references) | |
Cote D'ivoire | Several U.S.-based companies provide very reasonably priced accident, sickness, and liability insurance. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Romania | Consent of a trafficked person does not exempt the trafficker from liability. (references) |
Cyprus | A second 1997 law requires employers to provide insurance liability coverage for work-related injuries. (references) | |
Jamaica | Striking workers can interrupt work without criminal liability but cannot be assured of keeping their jobs. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. Liability to attacks of laughter is one of the characteristics distinguishing man from the animals -- these being not only inaccessible to the provocation of his example, but impregnable to the microbes having original jurisdiction in bestowal of the disease. Whether laughter could be imparted to animals by inoculation from the human patient is a question that has not been answered by experimentation. Dr. Meir Witchell holds that the infection character of laughter is due to the instantaneous fermentation of sputa diffused in a spray. From this peculiarity he names the disorder Convulsio spargens. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | So it's the corporation's liability to pay for and fund fully the children and their childcare. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | The farm bill, transportation policy, product liability reform, enterprise zones. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Liability" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.84% of the time. "Liability" is used about 3,762 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) | 99.84% | 3,756 | 2,587 |
| Noun (common) | 0.13% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,762 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "liability": absolute liability ♦ admitted liability ♦ capital shares issued by limited liability companies ♦ civil liability ♦ Civil Liability Convention 1969 ♦ company with limited liability ♦ condition precedent to liability ♦ contingent liability ♦ criminal liability ♦ decennial liability insurance ♦ deferred liability ♦ dividend shares issued by limited liability companies ♦ hold liability ♦ impose liability ♦ indemnity against liability ♦ liability account ♦ liability attaches ♦ liability of innkeeper ♦ liability resulting from foundation ♦ liability to pay ♦ limit liability company ♦ limited liability ♦ limited liability company ♦ payment liability ♦ personal liability insurance ♦ primary liability ♦ public liability ♦ redeemed shares in limited liability companies ♦ ship owner's liability ♦ subject to liability ♦ subordinated liability ♦ Tanker Owner's Voluntary Agreement Concerning Liability for Oil Pollution ♦ tax liability ♦ unlimited liability ♦ unlimited liability company. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "liability": liability-corporate. | |
Ending with "liability": asset-liability. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "liability"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prirje (affinity, aptitude, bent, current, disposition, drift, flair, fondness, gift, habit, inclination, leaning, mission, penchant, proclivity, propensity, run, set, taste, tendency, trend, vocation), pengesë (balk, bar, barrier, baulk, block, boom, chock, clog, cramp, crash barrier, cumber, detention, difficulty, dike, disadvantage, drag, drawback, encumbrance, fetter, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hitch, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, interruption, jamming, manacle, mash, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pullback, retardation, retardment, rub, setback, stay, stoppage, stumbling block, stumbling-stone, stunt, traverse, trip up), përgjegjesi, detyrim (bond, burden, charge, compulsion, constraint, duress, enforcement, imposition, must, obligation), borxh (arrearage, arrears, borrowing, chalk, charge, debt, indebtedness, owing, score). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسؤولية (book, onus, responsibility, trust), عائق (balk, bar, barrier, clog, deterrent, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, embarrassment, encumbrance, fencing, hamper, handicap, hindrance, impediment, inconvenience, interference, jam, morass, obstruction, obstructive, restraint, setback, shackle, stick, stumbling block, stymie, tie, trammel, traverse), إحتمال حدوث, ديون (arrears). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | склонност (addiction, affectation, aptitude, bent, bias, disposition, fancy, fondness, habit, inclination, leaning, liking, partiality, penchant, ply, predilection, predispose, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, relish, squint, stomach, taste, tendency, turn, vein), спънка (backset, balk, baulk, countercheck, cramp, difficulty, drawback, hindrance, hitch, hobble, impediment, interference, interruption, kink, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, setback, shoal, stumbling block), отговорност (accountability, amenability, blame, care, charge, job, look out, responsibility, trust), наклонност (bent, habitude, inclination, liking, set, strain, vocation), задължение (bond, call, char, charge, commitment, committal, duty, engagement, guaranty, job, obligation, office, onus, place, recognizance, responsibility, tie), пречка (bit, block, blockage, check, clog, cross, difficulty, disadvantage, disqualification, embarrassment, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, kibosh, let, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, remora, rub, setback, spoke, stay, stop, stumbling-stone, traverse), предразположение (inclination, penchant, predispose, prejudice, prepossession, proneness, propensity, set), дълг (credit, debt, devoir, duty, indebtedness, office, part, score, trust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 责任 (Accountability, Duties, liabilities, Onus, responsibility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | závazek (bond, commitment, engagement, obligation, pledge, recognizance, undertaking), ruèení (pledge, responsibility, sponsion), povinnost (business, commitment, devoir, duty, incumbency, job, obligation, onus, part, responsibility), odpovìdnost (account, accountability, responsibility), náchylnost (inclination, predisposition, proclivity, propensity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | uheldig omstændighed, retligt ansvar (civil liability, public liability), haeftelse, gæld (account payable, borrowed capital, capital, debt, debt capital, debt payable, deposits and borrowed funds, liabilities, outside capital, reserves and liabilities, stockholders'equity and liabilities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitschuld (account payable, debt, debt payable), strop (abortion, loss, sling, strap, strop, tightening band), schuld (account payable, blame, debt, debt payable, fault, guilt), aansprakelijkheid (civil liability, liabilities, public liability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | respondecasekuro (liability insurance), nepublika kompanio (company, limited liability), anonima societo (limited liability company), anonima kompanio (limited liability company). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فرض (Assumption, Duty, Guess, Hypothesis, If, Posit, Presumption, Supposition, Thesis), مسلولیت (Charge, Office, Onus, Peril, Post, Responsibility, Trust), سزاواری (Desert, Merit), احتمال (Aptness, Expectancy, Likelihoood, Possibility, Presumption, Probability, Supposition), استعداد (Amplitude, Aptitude, Aptness, Art, Brilliance, Caliber, Capacity, Genius, Gift, Ingenuity, Knack, Property, Shift, Tendency, Turquoise, Verve), شمول (Inclusion, Incurrence), دین (Debt, Faith, Religion), بدهی (Debit, Debt, Due). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vastuuvelvollisuus (civil liability, public liability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | responsabilité (liabilities), handicap. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | haftung (adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness, bond, cohesion, grip, legal responsibility, liabilities, purchase, sticking property, the state in which two surfaces are held together by interfacial forces which may consist of valence forces), haftpflicht (civil liability, legal responsibility, public liability), verantwortlichkeit (accountability, accountableness, responsibility), verpflichtung (bond, booking, commitment, committal, debt, duty, engagement, engaging, enlistment, incumbency, obligation, responsibility, signing on, signing up, undertaking), schuld (account payable, blame, debt, debt payable, engagement, fault, guilt, guiltiness, obligation, responsible, sin, trespasses, undertaking, wrong). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ευθύνη (accountability, blame, liableness, responsibility), παθητικό (capital, liabilities, reserves and liabilities, stockholders'equity and liabilities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אחריות (guarantee, insurance, responsibility, sponsorship, surety, warranty), חבות (indebtedness, obligation), "תחיבות (commitment, duty, obligation, pledge, responsibility, undertaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kötelezettség (bond, commitment, encumbrance, engagement, obligation, ought, responsibility, tax, tie, undertaking), tehertétel (imposition), teher (ballast, burden, burthen, cargo, charge, drag, encumbrance, fardel, freight, imposition, lading, liabilities, load, loading, mortgage, onus, passive debts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pertanggungjawaban (accountability, responsibility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | responsabilit (accountability, amenability, answer, blame, care, liabilities, responsibility), svantaggio (detriment, disadvantage, drawback, handicap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ラー油 (cross between a lion and a tiger, curry and rice, Leica, license, lie, liger, like, lion, Lions Club, raayu, rice, rice cake, rice paper, rising generation), 借財 (debt, loan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ライア"リティー , しゃくざい (debt, loan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 책임 (liabilities, liable, responsibility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | freggyraght (adequateness, amenableness, responsiveness), feeagh (claim, claim debt, crake, raven, value, worth, worthwhile), beoyn (aptness, drift, fate, instinct, set, tendency, trend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | forpliktelse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iabilitylay tendência (aptitude, bent, bias, compliance, current, driving, habit, habitue, inclination, leaning, market trend, proconsul, propensity, stomach, tendency, tide, trend, vocation), suscetibilidade (sensibility, susceptibility, touchiness), sujeição (acquiesce, bondage, calaboose, in obedience to, prison, serfdom, servitude, subdual, subjection, subjugation, submission, subordination, subservience, thraldom, vassalage), responsabilidade civil (civil liability, public liability), responsabilidade (accountability, amenability, blame, burden, onward, responsibility, trust), passivo (capital, effrontery, liabilities, passive, reserves and liabilities, stockholders'equity and liabilities), estorvo (abashment, check, cloggyness, deterrent, embarrassment, encumbrance, hamper, nuisance, obstacle, obstruction, perplexity, preventions, trammels, withholdment), dependência (appendant, bondage, dependence, dependency, outhouse, poison dependence, room, subjection), dívida passiva (account payable, debt, debt payable), dívida (account payable, debt, debt payable, due, indebtedness, score). (various references) responsabilitate (accountability, charge, duty, responsibility), rãspundere (accountability, burden, duty, onus, responsibility), pasiv (inactive, languid, passive, passively, quiescent, recumbent, tame, unemployed), obligaţie (bond, business, commitment, duty, imposition, indebtedness, obligation, onus, part, pledge, plight, recognizance, servitude, stint, task), garanţie (assurance, bail, bailment, earnest, faith, guarantee, guaranty, hostage, indemnification, lien, pledge, recognizance, security, sponsion, sponsorship, surety, token, warrant), datorii (arrearage), îndatorire (duty, indebtedness, obligation, office, part). (various references) ответственность (accountability, amenability, onus, rap, responsibility, responsiblity, resposibility). (various references) prepreka (ado, balk, bar, barrage, barrier, baulk, difficulty, drag, drawback, hang up, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impeachment, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, set back, setback, snag, static, trammel, traverse), odgovornost (accountability, charge, responsibility), obaveza (bond, call, duty, must, obligation, undertaking), mogućnost (eventuality, opportunity, possibility, potential, potentiality). (various references) responsabilidad (accountability, amenability, charge, liabilities, responsibility, responsiveness, trust), obligación (bond, commitment, debenture, duty, engagement, long term bond, must, obligation, privity, subjection, trust, undertaking). (various references) ansvarighet (accountability, civil liability, public liability, responsibility), ansvar (charge, liabilities, onus, responsibility). (various references) หนี้สิน. (various references) yükümlülük (charge, compulsion, duty, encumbrance, engagement, function, impost, incumbency, obligation, onus, ought, responsibility), sorumluluk (accountability, baby, blame, buck, burden, charge, control, custody, encumbrance, engagement, load, office, onus, pidgin, place, responsibility, trust), mesuliyet (accountability, responsibility), eğilim (affection, aptitude, bent, bias, current, device, disposition, drift, gravitation, inclination, leaning, notion, obliquity, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, pulse, relish, sense, set, slant, squint, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend, turn, twist), borç (accommodation, arrear, arrears, care, debit, debt, encumbrance, loan, obligation, red). (various references) відповідальність (accountability, amenability, answerableness, blame, onus, responsibility, trust), зобов'язання (debt, engagements, indebtedness, obligation, plight, subjection, undertaking). (various references) trách nhiệm pháp lý, nguy cơ cái gây khó khăn trở ngại, khả năng mắc, cái nợ đời, cái của nợ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pericula, periculi, periculis, periculo, periculorum, periculum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "liability": pliability, reliability, unreliability. (additional references) | |
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"Liability" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diability, fiability, liabiliy, liabilty, liablity, liabuility, libility, liebigite, likability, locability. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "liability" (pronounced lī'ubi"lutē) |
| 9 | l ī' u b i" l u t ē | reliability, unreliability. |
| 8 | -ī' u b i" l u t ē | deniability. |
| 7 | -u b i" l u t ē | ability, acceptability, accessibility, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, culpability, debility, deductibility, 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, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, readability, respectability, responsibility, sensibility, stability, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, 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-i-i-i-l-l-t-y" | |
-1 letter: lability. | |
-2 letters: ability. | |
-3 letters: tibial. | |
-4 letters: alibi, bally, biali, bialy, billy, ilial, laity, litai, tally, tibia. | |
-5 letters: ably, alit, ally, bail, bait, ball, bill, blat, ilia, illy, lati, lilt, lily, tail, tali, tall, till, yill. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-i-i-i-l-l-t-y" | |
+1 letter: likability, livability, pliability. | |
+2 letters: coilability, fallibility, illimitably, liveability, mailability, reliability, violability. | |
+3 letters: alienability, availability, dilatability, drillability, illiberality, plausibility. | |
+4 letters: applicability, believability, cultivability, filterability, impalpability, implacability, infallibility, inviolability, playabilities, replicability, syllabicities, unreliability. | |
+5 letters: antibiotically, assimilability, collapsibility, deliverability, falsifiability, illimitability, implausibility, inalienability, inalterability, ineluctability, inflammability, intolerability, localizability, manipulability, polarizability, unavailability. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 61 62 69 6C 69 74 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .. .- -... .. .-.. .. - -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101001 01100001 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L i a b i l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0069 0061 0062 0069 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)467567687578758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Historic 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Abbreviations 16. Acronyms | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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