complicitousness
English
editEtymology
editFrom complicitous + -ness.
Noun
editcomplicitousness (uncountable)
- (rare, possibly nonstandard) Complicity.
- 1975, J. S. Lawry, “Green Light or Square of Light in The Great Gatsby,”, in Dalhousie Review, volume 55, number 1, page 118:
- Despite the original promise of freedom and toleration, conspiracy or complicitousness are either sought out or thrust upon such people.
- 1994, Edward Friedman, “Reconstructing China's National Identity,”, in The Journal of Asian Studies, volume 53, number 1, page 75:
- Instead, "the people" were invited to hate. . . . Life was a lie, complicitousness in self-enslavement.