RESPONSIBLENESS Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

responsibleness

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Definition of responsibleness

as in responsibility

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Noun

Tech companies like Meta and YouTube are shielded from legal responsibility for content posted by third parties, based on Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.

— Kaitlyn Huamani, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
However, the responsibilities of leading a large constitutional office required me to balance my schedule, including senior leadership meetings held on Tuesday mornings that often conflicted with BCC meetings.

— Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2026

Definition of responsibility

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But the book’s ruminative watchfulness is unsuccessfully conjugated in this overly sedate play with music, which has the feel of a song cycle, though sung by the fine cast with gorgeous, lonely sorrow.

— Brian Seibert, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
Hong Kong icon Tony Leung has channeled brooding urban energy for the masterpieces of Wong Kar-Wai, balancing the debonair ennui of Marcello Mastroianni with the quiet watchfulness of Montgomery Clift.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 8 May 2026

Definition of watchfulness

Noun

The machine moves with circumspection, as if consciousness had just been ensouled in a new body.

— Stephen Witt, New Yorker, 6 July 2026
His quiet tone is not shyness or false modesty but circumspection and a sense of boundaries that imply respect and love for real communication.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026

Definition of circumspection

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