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ANSWERABLENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Responsibility to someone or for some activity
Synonyms:
accountability; answerability; answerableness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("answerableness" is a kind of...):
responsibility; responsibleness (a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct)
Derivation:
answerable (morally or legally responsible to a higher authority)