Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LI'A-BLE-NESS, or LI-A-BIL'I-TY, n.

1. The state of being bound or obliged in law or justice; responsibility. The officer wishes to discharge himself from his liability.
2. Exposedness; tendency; a state of being subject; as the liableness of a man to contract disease in an infected room; a liability to accidents.