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Culpability vs Liable - What's the difference?

culpability | liable |

As a noun culpability

is the degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offence.

As an adjective liable is

bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.

culpability

English

Noun

(culpabilities)
  • The degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offence.

    • Related terms

    * culpable

    liable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
    • The surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 34.
    • The passion for philosophy, like that for religion, seems liable to this inconvenience
  • Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable.
  • Likely.
    • Someone is liable to slip on your icy sidewalk.

    Related terms

    * liability * reliable

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