responsibility
nounEtymology
From responsible + -ity. Although the components are of French origin, the compound appears to have been formed in English. Later-attested French responsabilité is modeled on the English word, and Italian responsabilità is in turn modeled on the French.
- derived from responsus
- derived from responsable
- borrowed from responsable
Definitions
The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
- Responsibility is a heavy burden.
The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.
A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
- Why didn't you clean the house? That was your responsibility!
- The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world
- If parents, teachers, and ministers conducted their responsibilities by following the ratings, children would have a steady diet of ice cream, school holidays, and no Sunday school.
The neighborhood
- synonymresponsibleness
- neighborrespond
- neighboraccountability
Derived
age of criminal responsibility, chain-of-responsibility pattern, command responsibility, co-responsibility, corporate social responsibility, diminished responsibility, interresponsibility, irresponsibility, nonresponsibility, single responsibility principle, social responsibility, take responsibility
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at responsibility. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at responsibility. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at responsibility
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA