involvement n 1: the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities" [syn: engagement, participation, involvement, involution] [ant: non-engagement, non- involvement}, nonparticipation] 2: a connection of inclusion or containment; "he escaped involvement in the accident"; "there was additional involvement of the liver and spleen" 3: a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something; "an interest in music" [syn: interest, involvement] 4: a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn: affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour] 5: the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) [syn: participation, involvement]

involvement noun see involve

involvement
n.
1 (often foll. by in, with) the act or an instance of involving; the process of being involved.
2 financial embarrassment.
3 a complicated affair or concern.

involvement (involvements) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Your involvement in something is the fact that you are taking part in it. She disliked his involvement with the group and disliked his friends. N-UNCOUNT: oft N in/with n 2. Involvement is the enthusiasm that you feel when you care deeply about something. Ben has always felt a deep involvement with animals. N-UNCOUNT 3. An involvement is a close relationship between two people, especially if they are not married to each other. They were very good friends but there was no romantic involvement... N-VAR

Involvement \In*volve"ment\, n. The act of involving, or the state of being involved. --Lew Wallace.

155 Moby Thesaurus words for "involvement": 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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