complicity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.
  2. Complexity.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

complicity complicities

Etymology

From French complicité, from Middle French, from Old French complice (“accomplice”), from Late Latin complic-, stem of complex (“partner, confederate”), from Latin complicō (“fold together”).

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