Responsibility vs Respectability - What's the difference?
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The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
(military) The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms).
(military) The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms).
The quality of being respectable.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability' out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of ' respectability :it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= The class of respectable people.
As nouns the difference between responsibility and respectability
is that responsibility is the state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable while respectability is the quality of being respectable.responsibility
English
Noun
(responsibilities)- Responsibility is a heavy burden.
- 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 -
Synonyms
* responsiblenessSee also
* accountabilityReferences
* * * Feltus, C.; Petit, M. (2009). "Building a Responsibility Model Including Accountability, Capability and Commitment", Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security'', Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ), Fukuoka, 2009.''Building a Responsibility Model Including Accountability, Capability and Commitment
respectability
English
Noun
(en-noun)England 1-0 Ukraine, passage=But once again Hodgson's men found a way to get the result they required and there is a real air of respectability about their campaign even though they had to survive a first-half siege from a Ukraine side desperate for the win they needed to progress.}}