Meaning of INVOLVEMENT
| Pronunciation: | | in'vâlvmunt
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- [n] the act sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"
- [n] a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something; "an interest in music"
- [n] a connection of inclusion or containment; "he escaped involvement in the accident"; "there was additional involvement of the liver and spleen"
- [n] the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.)
- [n] a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
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| | Synonyms: | | affair, affaire, amour, engagement, interest, intimacy, liaison, participation, participation |
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| | Antonyms: | | non-engagement, non-involvement, nonparticipation | | |
| | See Also: | | commitment, comprehension, concern, condition, connectedness, connection, connexion, curiosity, enthusiasm, group action, group participation, implication, inclusion, intercession, intervention, sexual relationship, status, wonder | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*volve"ment\, n.
The act of involving, or the state of being involved. --Lew
Wallace.
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| | Related Terms: | | absorbed attention, absorption, application, arraignability, arraignableness, assault, association, assumption, attack, bias, blameworthiness, bloody hands, burden, caring, censurability, censurableness, censure, chargeability, chord, cincture, circling, circumambience, circumambiency, circumcincture, circumflexion, circumjacence, circumposition, citation, cochairmanship, complexity, complexness, complication, complicity, concentration, concern, condominium, containment, contemplation, contribution, convolution, copartnership, copartnery, cotenancy, crabbedness, criminality, culpability, deep study, deep thought, dirty hands, discrimination, echo, embracement, embroilment, empathy, encincture, encirclement, enclosure, encompassment, enfoldment, engagement, engrossment, enmeshment, entailment, entanglement, envelopment, environment, favoritism, fellow feeling, girding, girdling, guilt, guiltiness, guilty conscience, having a part, identification, immersion, impeachability, impeachableness, implication, impugnment, inclination, inclusion, incrimination, inculpation, indictability, indictableness, inequality, intentness, interagency, intercession, interest, intermediation, interposition, intervention, intricacy, intricateness, involution, joint chairmanship, joint control, joint ownership, joint tenancy, leaning, mediation, meditation, monomania, nepotism, obsession, one-sidedness, onus, partaking, parti pris, partiality, participation, partisanism, partisanship, partnership, pathos, peccancy, perplexity, preference, preferential treatment, preoccupation, presumption, profound thought, ramification, rapt attention, red-handedness, relating, reprehensibility, reproachableness, reprovability, reprovableness, response, responsiveness, sharing, single-mindedness, stepping in, studiousness, study, submersion, subsumption, subtlety, suffrage, surrounding, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, tanglement, technicality, undetachment, undispassionateness, unneutrality, vibes, vibrations, voting |
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