answerability.

Responsibility to explain or justify conduct to someone entitled to ask.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• answerability to the public
• institutional answerability

On the page

The reform increased the board's answerability to elected representatives.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: evaluation. Commonness: moderately common.