complicity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: com=plic=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

complicity, n. [F. complicité.].

 The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

complicity, n. partnership in a crime or wrongdoing.

Etymology

complice (see ACCOMPLICE) + -ITY

THESAURUS

complicity

arraignability, arraignableness, artifice, association, bipartisanship, blameworthiness, bloody hands, burden, cabal, censurability, censurableness, chargeability, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communism, communitarianism, community, complot, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, condominium, confederacy, connivance, conspiracy, contribution, contrivance, contriving, cooperation, cooperativeness, copartnership, copartnery, cotenancy, counterplot, covin, criminality, culpability, deep-laid plot, dirty hands, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, engagement, engineering, esprit, esprit de corps, fellow feeling, fellowship, finagling, finesse, frame-up, game, guilt, guiltiness, guilty conscience, harmony, having a part, impeachability, impeachableness, implication, inculpation, indictability, indictableness, intrigue, involvement, joining of forces, joint chairmanship, joint control, joint effort, joint operation, joint ownership, joint tenancy, little game, machination, maneuvering, manipulation, mass action, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, octet, onus, partaking, participation, partnership, peccancy, plot, plotting, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quintet, reciprocity, red-handedness, reprehensibility, reproachableness, reprovability, reprovableness, rigging, scheme, schemery, scheming, septet, sextet, sharing, solidarity, stratagem, suffrage, symbiosis, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, trick, trio, triumvirate, troika, underplot, united action, voting, web of intrigue, wire-pulling

ROGET THESAURUS

complicity

Cooperation

N cooperation, coadjuvancy, coadjutancy, coagency, coefficiency, concert, concurrence, complicity, participation, union, additivity, combination, collusion, association, alliance, colleagueship, joint stock, copartnership, cartel, confederation, coalition, fusion, a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together, logrolling, freemasonry, unanimity, esprit de corps, party spirit, clanship, partisanship, concord, synergy, coaction, cooperating, in cooperation, in league, coadjuvant, coadjutant, dyed in the wool, cooperative, additive, participative, coactive, synergetic, synergistic, favorable to, unopposed, as one, shoulder to shoulder, synergistically, cooperatively, due teste valgono piu che una sola.