complicityn.
/kəmˈplɪsɪti/ 1. The being an accomplice; partnership in an evil action.Not in Johnson.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil action > [noun] > involvement in
complicity1656
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > partnership in
complicity1656
accomplicity1792
accompliceship1795
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Complicity, a consenting or partnership in evil.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vi. 73 The eagerness of the political reformers to clear themselves from complicity with heterodoxy.
1878 W. Black Green Pastures xxiii. 187 If you can clear yourself of all complicity in the matter.
2. State of being complex or involved; = complexity n.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or complexity
intrication?a1475
intricatenessa1586
intricacy1602
engagement1642
anfractuosity1645
complicateness1656
intrigue1656
implicateness1685
complexedness1690
complexness1727
complexity1790
complicacy18..
subtlety1815
complicatedness1818
complicity1847
Byzantinism1945
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun]
intricatenessa1586
perplexednessa1586
involution1611
mixture1614
complicateness1656
puzzledness1662
complexedness1690
complexation1707
complexness1727
complexity1790
complication1793
complicacy18..
complicatedness1818
complicity1847
involvedness1867
multiplexity1938
1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Complicity, complexity; state of being involved.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 85 In all the complicity and delay incident to the several series of means they employ.
1888 Jrnl. Education Jan. 31 Carrying it on..with increasing complicity and energy according to the increasing age of his pupils.
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