sense of responsibility
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3.2
- noun
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sentido de responsabilidad
- She feels a deep sense of responsibility to care for her younger siblings.
- feel a sense of responsibility
- develop a sense of responsibility
- greater sense of responsibility
He says Nietzsche stresses a sense of responsibility towards the ancestors.
- He says Nietzsche stresses a sense of responsibility towards the ancestors.
- It lands very well, but it lands with that sort of a very strong sense of responsibility.
- They cannot disassociate the trouble they feel from an intense sense of responsibility, which then also entails shame.
- If I do too much, I'm robbing them of their self esteem, of their sense of responsibility and agency.
- You know, I think when you are blessed, there's a sense of responsibility.
- And so I do feel a sense of responsibility of, of that gift.
- They have sense of responsibility, being community, you know, courage, honesty, hard work.
- And and I think that here's somebody with no sense of responsibility for his own actions, he will blame everybody else.
- But they certainly make an attempt to inculcate a certain sense of responsibility for their their charges.
- Like you, I've had that sense of responsibility.
Examples
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Nothing has done more to undermine our sense of responsibility than our failed welfare system.
Academic text (1998) -
Having students choose their own groups develops a sense of responsibility and ownership.
Academic text (1993) -
And I know she feels a real sense of responsibility about what happened.
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You have no sense of responsibility for this house!
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Does the captain feel no sense of responsibility for the lives of his passengers?
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In short, we have lost our sense of responsibility to future generations.
Academic text (1999) -
Young man, don't you have any sense of responsibility?
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Your very trust has instilled an enormous sense of responsibility in me.
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Tasks, chores, and relationships promote within the developing child a sense of responsibility.
Academic text (1993) -
Five of the six mothers showed remorse and a sense of responsibility for their role in the placement.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
∞
2.7
A duty to do something and answer for what you do
∞
1.0
Something you must do because of law, your job, or what is right
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3.2
A duty you feel to do something because it is right or someone helped you
11
3.8
A feeling that you must do what is right for others
Careful and reliable way of acting that shows a person can be trusted with duties
Antonyms
How Responsible
- Jargon
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3.3
198
6.1
17
3.2
∞
1.0
17
4.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
sense + of + responsibility
The phrase is directly compositional: 'sense' (feeling/awareness) + 'of' + 'responsibility' (duty) yields 'a feeling/awareness of duty', which matches the provided definition. This noun + prepositional construction is cross-linguistically common (e.g. Spanish 'sentido de responsabilidad') and would be readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Sense of responsibility links sense (an inner 'feeling' or notice) and responsibility ('a duty' to do or care for something). Imagine a small alarm inside you that rings when someone needs help or a task must be done; that's why it means 'the feeling that you must do something or take care of someone'.