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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
Victoria Abril

Meaning of "complicity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COMPLICITY

complicity  [kəmˈplɪsɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPLICITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Complicity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COMPLICITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Complicity

An individual is complicit in a crime if he/she is aware of its occurrence and has the ability to report the crime, but fails to do so. As such, the individual effectively allows criminals to carry out a crime despite possibly being able to stop that person--either directly or by contacting the authorities. The offender is a de facto accessory to the crime; rather than an innocent bystander. Law relating to complicity varies. Usually complicity is not a crime although this sometimes conflicts with popular perception. At a certain point a person that is complicit in a crime may become a conspirator depending on the degree of involvement by the individual and whether a crime was completed or not. Complicity is a doctrine that operates to hold persons criminally responsible for the acts of others. Complicity encompasses accessorial and conspiratorial liability. Accessorial liability is frequently referred to as accomplice liability. An accomplice is a person who helps another person commit a crime, Accomplice liability involves primary actors who actually participate in the commission of the crime and secondary actors who aid and encourage the primary actors.

Definition of complicity in the English dictionary

The definition of complicity in the dictionary is the fact or condition of being an accomplice, esp in a criminal act.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMPLICITY


alcoholicity
ˌælkəhɒˈlɪsɪtɪ
apostolicity
əˌpɒstəˈlɪsɪtɪ
authenticity
ˌɔːθɛnˈtɪsɪtɪ
catholicity
ˌkæθəˈlɪsɪtɪ
cyclicity
sɪkˈlɪsɪtɪ
duplicity
djuːˈplɪsɪtɪ
electricity
ɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪtɪ
ethnicity
ɛθˈnɪsɪtɪ
felicity
fɪˈlɪsɪtɪ
helicity
hɪˈlɪsɪtɪ
hydrophilicity
ˌhaɪdrəʊfɪˈlɪsɪtɪ
implicity
ɪmˈplɪsɪtɪ
infelicity
ˌɪnfɪˈlɪsɪtɪ
multiplicity
ˌmʌltɪˈplɪsɪtɪ
nucleophilicity
ˌnjuːklɪəʊfɪˈlɪsɪtɪ
publicity
pʌˈblɪsɪtɪ
quadruplicity
ˌkwɒdrʊˈplɪsɪtɪ
simplicity
sɪmˈplɪsɪtɪ
toxicity
tɒkˈsɪsɪtɪ
triplicity
trɪˈplɪsɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMPLICITY

complicacies
complicacy
complicant
complicate
complicated
complicatedly
complicatedness
complication
complicative
complice
complicit
complicities
complicitly
complicitous
complied
complier
complies
compliment
complimental
complimentarily

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPLICITY

antigenicity
basicity
capacity
centricity
chronicity
concentricity
cytotoxicity
eccentricity
elasticity
historicity
hydroelectricity
hydrophobicity
modulus of elasticity
monotonicity
nephrotoxicity
periodicity
plasticity
static electricity
synchronicity
teratogenicity
viscoelasticity

Synonyms and antonyms of complicity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COMPLICITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «complicity» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of complicity

Translation of «complicity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMPLICITY

Find out the translation of complicity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of complicity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «complicity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

同谋
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

complicidad
570 millions of speakers

English

complicity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मिलीभगत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تواطؤ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

соучастие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cumplicidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কুকর্মের সহকারিতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

complicité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penglibatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mittäterschaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

共謀
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공모
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Complicity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đồng loa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உடந்தையாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सहभागिता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

suç ortaklığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

complicità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

współudział
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

співучасть
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

complicitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνενοχή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

medepligtigheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

medhjälp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

medvirkning
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of complicity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPLICITY»

The term «complicity» is quite widely used and occupies the 54.037 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPLICITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «complicity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «complicity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about complicity

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10 QUOTES WITH «COMPLICITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word complicity.
1
Victoria Abril
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
2
Barbara Amiel
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
3
Pierre Bourdieu
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.
4
James Dickey
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
5
Umberto Eco
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
6
Colin Firth
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
7
Elton Gallegly
While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.
8
Tahar Ben Jelloun
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
9
Chris Jordan
One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.
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Barbara Kruger
Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPLICITY»

Discover the use of complicity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to complicity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Complicity
COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the copy for tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source - could be big, could be very ...
Iain Banks, 2008
2
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited ...
Expanded from the celebrated Hartford Courant special report that the Connecticut Department of Education sent to every middle school and high school in the state (the original work is required readings in many college classrooms,) this new ...
Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, Jenifer Frank, 2007
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Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance
It is an important contribution to the field of women's studies and (primarily British) imperial history, in that many of the essays explore problems of cross-cultural interaction that have been heretofore ignored." —Nancy Fix Anderson "A ...
Nupur Chaudhuri, Margaret Strobel, 1992
4
Complicity and the Law of State Responsibility
The book shows that the concept of State complicity is firmly grounded in international law, and that the international rule of law may serve as a conceptual paradigm for today's international legal order.
Helmut Philipp Aust, 2011
5
Confession and Complicity in Narrative
What is the precise relationship between the writer of a text and the reader? This 1987 text tackles this question.
Dennis A. Foster, 1987
6
Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a philosophic grimoire, CYCLONOPEDIA is a theory-fiction on the Middle East as a living entity.
Reza Negarestani, 2008
7
Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in ...
Complicity in the Holocaust describes how the state's intellectual and spiritual leaders enthusiastically partnered with Hitler's regime, becoming active participants in the persecution of Jews, effectively giving Germans permission to ...
Robert P. Ericksen, 2012
8
Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity
"Sweet Dreams" is a testament to the creative processes and self-conscious heterogeneity of art today as well as a revolutionary effort to celebrate imaginative, creative thought and the value of art in contemporary life.
Johanna Drucker, 2006
9
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral ...
The book highlights how well-intentioned white people who might even consider themselves as paragons of antiracism might be unwittingly sustaining an unjust system that they say they want to dismantle.
Barbara Applebaum, 2010
10
"Complicity with Evil": The United Nations in the Age of ...
This is evinced, author and journalist Adam LeBor maintains, in a May 1995 document from Yasushi Akashi, the most senior UN official in the field during the Yugoslav wars, in which he refused to authorize air strikes against the Serbs for ...
Adam LeBor, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPLICITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term complicity is used in the context of the following news items.
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Blocking the Factories - Actions against complicity with Israeli crimes
To commemorate the first anniversary of Israel's 2014 bombardment of Gaza, and also in the week that marks 10 years since the founding of ... «Middle East Monitor, Jul 15»
2
Unsilencing Gaza: One year since 'Operation Protective Edge'
... continues to be the example, time and again, for what happens when we fail to hold our leaders accountable for their actions and complicity. «Mondoweiss, Jul 15»
3
Our silence over Gaza is taken as complicity
We are reduced to complicity unless we resist the brutality in whatever way we can. The people of Gaza have nowhere to go, they are penned ... «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»
4
UPDATED: GPD investigates suspicious fire; two arrested
Joshua Aaron Meador of Cave City is charged with second-degree complicity to arson, second-degree complicity to burglary, first-degree ... «Glasgow Daily Times, Jul 15»
5
Nadiya Savchenko: Ukrainian pilot has charges upgraded to murder …
Previously, the pilot had been charged with complicity in the deaths of reporters Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin who were covering the ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
6
Beijing meets its match in the markets
Chinese leaders crowed in 2008 at what they rightly saw as the complicity of western regulators and central bankers in fostering irrational ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
7
The return of Helen Demidenko: from literary hoaxer to political …
“It has revived discredited and mendacious hypotheses about the background to eastern European antisemitism and complicity in the ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
8
Army spooks under the scanner
An ongoing army investigation has revealed the complicity of army officials and irregularities in a contract with a private sector software firm. «India Today, Jul 15»
9
Group accuses police of complicity in Enugu NURTW, RTEAN crisis
police The Nigeria police on Friday came under heavy criticisms over its role in the row between the Road Transport Employers Association of ... «DailyPost Nigeria, Jul 15»
10
Family feels closer to closure after 3 arrested in murder case
Rodney Hayes, 23, and CeeJay Larkins, 21, are both charged with complicity to murder. The two men were arraigned Wednesday. Brewster ... «WCPO, Jul 15»

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