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nonresponsibility

nonresponsibility noun: absence of responsibility; not being responsible.

Noun

nonresponsibility (uncountable)

  1. Absence of responsibility; not being responsible.
    • One can, though, strengthen the assumption at issue – the assumption that causal nonresponsibility is not sufficient for moral nonresponsibility – without appeal to the notion of avoidability, so that the resulting, strengthened principle does do the required work of ruling out our being morally...2007 July 17, Ishtiyaque Haji, “Reflections on the Incompatibilist’s Direct Argument”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 1, →DOI

Origin of nonresponsibility

From non- + responsibility.

Questions about nonresponsibility

What does nonresponsibility mean?
Nonresponsibility means absence of responsibility; not being responsible.
What part of speech is nonresponsibility?
Nonresponsibility is a noun.

Words near nonresponsibility in the dictionary

  1. nonresponder
  2. nonresponders
  3. nonresponding
  4. nonresponse
  5. nonresponses
  6. nonresponsibility
  7. nonresponsible
  8. nonresponsive
  9. nonresponsiveness
  10. nonrestaurant
  11. nonresting

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