Cause
Cause noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.
Responsibility and cause are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Responsibility" instead a noun "Cause".
Responsibility
Responsibility noun - The state of being held as the cause of something that needs to be set right.
Cause and responsibility are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a noun "Responsibility".
Nearby Words: responsible, responsibly
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| human | human cause | human responsibility |
| physical | physical cause | physical responsibility |
| direct | direct cause | direct responsibility |
| noble | noble cause | noble responsibility |
| Other adjectives: true, actual, entire, real, big, great, huge, little, main, partial, moral, ultimate, new, major, sole, apparent, indirect, less, greater, primary. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- A fundamentally good and well-meaning character who attains (either by chance or through his own effort) a position of great prestige, power, and responsibility—only to cause more harm than good because he doesn't have enough willpower, foresight, and general virtue to handle them right.
Source: Unfit for Greatness - Spider-Man: Peter Parker fights crime for the grand glorious cause of Responsibility: he has the power to do it, so he has to do it.
Source: Concepts Are Cheap -
The Atoner: After being the indirect cause of a little girl's death, Jix makes it his responsibility to look after the girl and apologize her to after she wakes up from her nine-month-hibernation.
Source: Literature / Everfound
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