punishabilityn.
/ˌpʌnɪʃəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌpənɪʃəˈbɪlᵻdi/ The fact or quality of being punishable.
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society > authority > punishment > [noun] > quality of being punishable
obnoxiousness1610
punishableness1647
penalness1727
punitiveness1727
punishability1855
1855 Asylum Jrnl. No. 14. 217/2 The majority of the insane are also not so entirely insane, as not in most cases to possess a greater or less amount of consciousness of their..punishment and their punishability.
1876 Westm. Rev. No. 98. 441 To inquire how the notion of Right and Wrong..is linked to that of punishability.
1946 S. Glueck Nuremberg Trial & Aggressive War vii. 92 To limit liability and punishability to guilty States is to emasculate this tremendously important principle of international law.
1992 Isis 83 153/2 Medical theory..increasingly stressed a biological basis for insanity, seeming to imply a mechanistic account of human behavior that might undermine principles of punishability.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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