Privilege and Responsibility

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Privilege noun - Something granted as a special favor.

Usage example: the town's oldest resident will have the privilege of leading the parade kicking off the Heritage Celebration

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Responsibility is an antonym for privilege in right topic.

Nearby Words: privileged, privileging

Responsibility noun - The state of being held as the cause of something that needs to be set right.

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Privilege is an antonym for responsibility.

Nearby Words: responsible, responsibly

human	human privilege	human responsibility
high	high privilege	high responsibility
full	full privilege	full responsibility
noble	noble privilege	noble responsibility
Other adjectives: real, great, enormous, huge, main, social, personal, extra, added, medical.

Goliath in Gargoyles, although his position as clan leader seems to be more one of responsibility than of privilege.

Source: The Captain
Hobbes Was Right: The general consensus in the novel is that the great democracies of the 20th Century all inevitably crumbled because they failed to balance privilege with responsibility.

Source: Literature / Starship Troopers
In response to accusations that he is a rich, tenured professor and thus in no position to lecture anyone on the working class, Noam Chomsky responds that responsibility "accrues through privilege", and that responsibility is amplified by the freedoms Americans and Europeans enjoy.

Source: Non-Idle Rich

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