complicity

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.
2. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Complexity.

Synonyms

conspiracy

collusion

participation

accomplice

implication

partnership

partner in crime

covin

intrigue

connivance

involvement

complicity in

support

trick

assistance

collaboration

confederacy

cahoot

dependents

encumbrances

Translations

complicité

Mitschuld

complicidad

complicità

Mittäterschaft

cumplicidade

suç ortaklığı

karmaşa

Teilnahme

medeplichtigheid

συνενοχή

تواطؤ

Mittäterschaften

Beihilfe

Anteil

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”).