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involvement
| Main Entry: |
involvement
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty |
| Synonyms: | crisis, embarrassment, entanglement, quandary |
| Main Entry: | involvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | engrossment |
| Synonyms: | intentness, preoccupation, reflection, study |
| Main Entry: | absorption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | total attention toward something |
| Synonyms: | captivation, concentration, engagement, engrossment, enthrallment, fascination, hang-up, holding, immersion, intentness, involvement, occupation, preoccupation, raptness |
| Antonyms: | boredom, distraction |
| Main Entry: | activism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | action for change |
| Synonyms: | advocacy, boycotting, championing, effecting change, influence peddling, involvement, logrolling, militancy, moving and shaking, picketing, striking |
| Main Entry: | complexity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complicatedness |
| Synonyms: | complication, convolution, elaboration, entanglement, intricacy, involvement, multiplicity, ramification |
| Antonyms: | clarity, directness, ease, obvious, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | complicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conspiracy |
| Synonyms: | abetment, agreement, collaboration, collusion, complot, concurrence, confederacy, connivance, engineering, guilt, guiltiness, implication, intrigue, involvement, machination, manipulation, partnership |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, innocence, noninvolvement, refusal |
| Main Entry: | concern |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business, responsibility |
| Synonyms: | affair, burden, care, charge, company, corporation, deportment, entanglement, enterprise, establishment, field, firm, house, interest, involvement, job, jungle*, matter, megacorp, mission, multinational, occupation, organization, outfit, shooting match, task, thing, transaction, worry, zoo |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entanglement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complication, predicament |
| Synonyms: | affair, association, cobweb, complexity, confusion, difficulty, embarrassment, embroilment, enmeshment, ensnarement, entrapment, imbroglio, intricacy, intrigue, involvement, jumble, knot, liaison, mesh, mess, mix-up, muddle, snare, tangle, tie-up, toil, trap, web |
| Antonyms: | disentanglement, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, forebearance, intimacy, involvement, inwardness, judgment, know-how, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, worldliness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
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