What is another word for onus?

Pronunciation: [ˈə͡ʊnəs] (IPA)

Onus is a word that is commonly used to describe a responsibility, burden, or obligation that a person has to take on. However, there are several other synonyms for onus that can be used interchangeably. Some of these include duty, accountability, liability, burden, requirement, responsibility, and obligation. Each of these words has a slightly different connotation and can be used depending on the context and the situation. For instance, the word liability is often used in a legal context, while accountability is used to describe a situation where someone is answerable for their actions. Similarly, duty is more commonly used in a work or military context. Regardless of which synonym is used, the central idea of onus remains the same - something that a person must do or take responsibility for.

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What are the opposite words for onus?

The word "onus" refers to a burden or responsibility. Antonyms for this word include "freedom" and "release," which suggest the absence of obligation or duty. Other antonyms for "onus" include "advantage," "benefit," and "privilege," which connote a positive outcome or reward rather than a burden. Similarly, "pleasure" and "enjoyment" suggest the absence of stress or worry, while "ease" and "simplicity" denote a lack of difficulty or complexity. These antonyms for "onus" provide a variety of ways to express the opposite of responsibility, and offer alternative perspectives on how one might feel about such obligations.

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Usage examples for Onus

Upon Eckardt-the commissary of police responsible for His Highness's safety-the onus rested.
"The Secrets of Potsdam"
William Le Queux
They would have preferred a monarchy, but they were ready to accept a provisional republic which would incur the task of settling the war with Germany and bear the onus of defeat.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
On the one hand, he had to accept the onus of recommending his chief officer for a command.
"Command"
William McFee

Famous quotes with Onus

  • Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best.
    Steven Hill
  • Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
    Dennis Prager
  • It has been a fashion in every generation since time immemorial amongst the people to enjoy own life like anything till their old age and then stand up on a public stage to address the rally and say merely for applause that the onus for a better future of good days depends on the present youth.
    Anuj Somany
  • There is presumably a calendar date — a — when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.
    Tom Stoppard
  • The actual effect of Rawls’s theory is to undercut theoretically any straightforward appeal to egalitarianism. Egalitarianism has the advantage that gross failure to comply with its basic principles is not difficult to monitor, There are, to be sure, well-known and unsettled issues about comparability of resources and about whether resources are really the proper objects for egalitarians to be concerned with, but there can be little doubt that if person A in a fully monetarized society has ten thousand times the monetary resources of person B, then under normal circumstances the two are not for most politically relevant purposes “equal.” Rawls’s theory effectively shifts discussion away from the utilitarian discussion of the consequences of a certain distribution of resources, and also away from an evaluation of distributions from the point of view of strict equality; instead, he focuses attention on a complex counterfactual judgment. The question is not “Does A have grossly more than B?”—a judgment to which within limits it might not be impossible to get a straightforward answer—but rather the virtually unanswerable “Would B have even less if A had less?” One cannot even begin to think about assessing any such claim without making an enormous number of assumptions about scarcity of various resources, the form the particular economy in question had, the preferences, and in particular the incentive structure, of the people who lived in it and unless one had a rather robust and detailed economic theory of a kind that few people will believe any economist today has. In a situation of uncertainty like this, the actual political onus probandi in fact tacitly shifts to the have-nots; the “haves” lack an obvious systematic motivation to argue for redistribution of the excess wealth they own, or indeed to find arguments to that conclusion plausible. They don't in the same way need to prove anything; they, ex hypothesi, “have” the resources in question: “Beati possidentes.”
    Raymond Geuss

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