responsibleness

noun

Definition of responsiblenessnext
as in responsibility

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  1. responsibility
  2. vigilance
  3. watchfulness
  4. circumspection
Noun
  • His responsibilities included opening the facility, watching the children and handling most of the technology at the daycare, including the camera system.
    — Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • These are essential for executives to perform optimally when heavier responsibilities inevitably arrive, much like reinforcing a bridge before any cracks appear.
    — Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of responsibility
Noun
  • Therefore, borrowers should exercise constant vigilance and carefully review their statements.
    — Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • This can lead to safety and operational concerns that require vigilance to ensure the protection of all meeting participants.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026
Definition of vigilance
Noun
  • 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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