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noun
The state of being guilty; guilt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: culpability, blameworthiness, guilt, guiltiness, noninnocence, uninnocence
Antonyms: innocence, blamelessness, cleanness, inculpability, innocency, guiltlessness, unguilt
noun
the state of having committed an offense
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: guilt
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: condition, status
Narrower terms: blameworthiness, culpability, culpableness, bloodguilt, complicity, criminalism, criminality, criminalness, guilt by association, impeachability, indictability
History
From Middle English giltines; equivalent to guilty + -ness.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
