guiltiness
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈɡɪltɪnəs/
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culpa
- Participants in Group 1 were exposed to negatively valenced comments that focused on the (alleged) guiltiness, dishonesty, and responsibility of RE (i.e., "Guilty."
Examples
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Since guiltiness... know not... know not,... ...yet feel fear still.
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If it confess a natural guiltiness, such as is his, let it not sound a thought upon your tongue against my brother's life." (2.2.140-43)
Academic text (2001) -
'The shame of the whole thing, the guiltiness, the fear.' -
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Full of dear guiltiness...
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"Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O my God, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Thy righteousness.
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The difference between cause and effect is telling for Desdemona in Othello: "Why I should fear I know not, /Since guiltiness I know not, but yet I feel I fear" (5.2.40-41).
Academic text (2001) -
She felt a deep sense of guiltiness after realizing she had lied to her friend.
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The defendant's guiltiness was evident from the evidence presented at the trial.
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Confessing his actions relieved him of the guiltiness that had burdened him for years.
Synonyms
187
2.7
Responsibility for a crime or other illegal action
156
4.5
A deep, painful feeling of regret and guilt after doing something wrong
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8.4
A deep feeling of regret and sorrow for something you did wrong
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4.2
A feeling of being sorry and worried after doing something wrong
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9.6
A feeling of guilt that stops you from doing something bad or follows it
A deep feeling of regret and sorrow for doing something wrong
Antonyms
How Guilty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word guiltiness comes from guilt, an old word for 'wrong' or a 'crime', plus the ending -iness that turns a word into a state or quality. So guiltiness means the state of having done something wrong or of feeling guilty.