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GUILTINESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does guiltiness mean?

• GUILTINESS (noun)
The noun GUILTINESS has 1 sense:

1. the state of having committed an offense

Familiarity information: GUILTINESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GUILTINESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The state of having committed an offense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

guilt; guiltiness

Hypernyms ("guiltiness" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "guiltiness"):

blameworthiness; culpability; culpableness (a state of guilt)

bloodguilt (the state of being guilty of bloodshed and murder)

complicity (guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense)

criminalism; criminality; criminalness (the state of being a criminal)

guilt by association (the attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guilty)

impeachability; indictability (the state of being liable to impeachment)

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