involvement
Other forms: involvements
Involvement is the act of participating in something. Even if you do nothing but drive the getaway car, you will be held to account for your involvement in a crime.
Involvement is useful because it is not specific. If, over the course of many years, you play and then coach football, you might refer to the time of your involvement in the sport. If you are engaged in a love affair, you might say, without going into too much detail, that you and your lover are involved and refer to the affair as your involvement.
Definitions of involvement
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the act of sharing in the activities of a group
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synonyms:
engagement, involution, participation
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Antonyms:
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non-engagement, non-involvement, nonparticipation
withdrawing from the activities of a group
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commitment
an engagement by contract involving financial obligation
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intercession, intervention
the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
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group participation
participation by all members of a group
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incurrence
the act of incurring (making yourself subject to something undesirable)
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intermediation, mediation
the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement
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type of:
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group action
action taken by a group of people
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non-engagement, non-involvement, nonparticipation
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the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.)
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synonyms:
participation
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a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
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a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something
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synonyms:
interest
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enthusiasm
a lively interest
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concern
something that interests you because it is important or affects you
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Anglomania
an excessive enthusiasm for all things English
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balletomania
extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets
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earth, earthly concern, world, worldly concern
the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
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affair, matter, thing
a vaguely specified concern
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affairs, personal business, personal matters
matters of personal concern
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part
that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
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point of honor
a concern that seriously reflects on your honor
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a connection of inclusion or containment“he escaped involvement in the accident”“there was additional involvement of the liver and spleen”
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implication
a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement)
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comprehension, inclusion
the relation of comprising something
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connectedness, connection, connexion
a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
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implication
Pronunciation
US
/ɪnˈvɑlvmənt/
UK
/ɪnˈvɒlvmənt/
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