answerability
- noun
- /ˌæn.sərˈæ.bɪ.lɪ.ti/
- Formal
:
responsabilidad
- Teachers have a high degree of answerability for the academic performance and well-being of their students.
Examples
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Democratic accountability calls for participatory stakeholder engagement that focuses on the relationship between the people (policy makers and citizens) and the foundations, from a standpoint of responsiveness and answerability to achieve shared values about policy issues.
Academic text (2016) -
Ordinary subjects also have certain strategies for holding Mwata accountable, and the Mutomboko ceremony is turned into a stage for the dramatization of such answerability.
Academic text (2006) -
Photography now demanded a certain answerability to the people; for if the audience for the historical photo-document in mechanical reproduction was the public at large, history as written or produced in the official sphere had to resonate with the photographic images in the collective imagination.
Academic text (2000) -
To start, accountability is essentially extrinsic in nature, with its focus of answerability fixed on some externally defined set of objectives and implying some externally imposed consequences for shortcomings.
Academic text (2004) -
In a democracy, answerability is essential, as leaders must be accountable for their decisions to the citizens.
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The company's answerability to its shareholders was evident when they addressed the recent financial losses.
Synonyms
∞
2.7
A duty to do something and answer for what you do
198
6.1
Being responsible for your actions and having to explain them to other people
Being responsible to someone or for something and expected to explain actions
Careful and reliable way of acting that shows a person can be trusted with duties
Antonyms
How Accountable
Surface Forms
Morphology
answerability = answerable (semi-transparent) = answer + able + ity
The noun is formed regularly from 'answerable' with '-ity', but the accountability sense is somewhat specialized and not fully predictable from the components alone.
Etymology
Answerability comes from the simple parts answer and the ending -ability, where answer means 'reply' and -ability means 'the state of being able'. So answerability is the idea of having to give a reply about your actions, which is why it means being 'responsible' or accountable.