culpability

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

culpability
    n 1: a state of guilt [syn: {blameworthiness}, {culpability},
         {culpableness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Culpability \Cul`pa*bil"i*ty\ (k?l`p?-b?l`?-t?), n.; pl.
   {Culpabilities} (-t?z). [Cf. F. culpabilit['e].]
   The state of being culpable.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "culpability":
      arraignability, arraignableness, blameworthiness, bloody hands,
      burden, censurability, censurableness, chargeability, complicity,
      criminality, dirty hands, fault, guilt, guiltiness,
      guilty conscience, impeachability, impeachableness, implication,
      inculpation, indictability, indictableness, involvement, onus,
      peccancy, red-handedness, reprehensibility, reproachableness,
      reprovability, reprovableness