liability

Other forms of liability

plural

liabilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about liability

What does liability mean?

liability means "the state of being legally obliged and responsible". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in liability?

liability has 5 syllables: li-a-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪti/.

What is another word for liability?

Close synonyms include indebtedness, financial obligation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of liability?

The recorded antonyms are asset.

Is liability a common word?

liability is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with liability?

48 words rhyme with liability. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.