Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offence.

    criminal culpability

    The investigation established his culpability in the fraud.

    Schuldhaftigkeit, Strafbarkeit

    виновностьvinovnostʹ

    винува́тістьvynuvátistʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)The amount of liability for a fault or wrongdoing.

    degree of culpability

    establish culpability

More definitions
  • a state of guilt

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Tom was accused of lying to the court in an effort to diminish his culpability.

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Translations

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Origin

From Middle French culpabilité.

From Middle French culpabilité.

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Forms

plural: culpabilities
Singularculpability
Pluralculpabilities

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms

Word family

2 related words
Relatedculpable

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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