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Collaboration vs Complicity - What's the difference?

collaboration | complicity |

As nouns the difference between collaboration and complicity

is that collaboration is the act of collaborating while complicity is (The state of being complicit)The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.

collaboration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) The act of collaborating.
  • Collaboration can be a useful part of the creative process.
  • (countable) A production or creation made by collaborating.
  • The husband-and-wife artists will release their new collaboration in June this year.
  • (uncountable) Treasonous cooperation.
  • He has been charged with collaboration .

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    complicity

    Noun

    (complicities)
  • (senseid)The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.
  • * 1854 , , Hard Times , ch. 32:
  • He drew up a placard, offering Twenty Pounds reward for the apprehension of Stephen Blackpool, suspected of complicity in the robbery of Coketown Bank.
  • (archaic) Complexity.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
  • * 1861 , Dr. Marx, "Musical Education and Instruction," The Musical Times , vol. 10, no. 220, p. 53:
  • How easy is it, on the other hand, to an enlightened teacher, particularly in the beginning, to elucidate the various forms of rhythm by methodical arrangement in respect of simplicity and increasing complicity or mixture!

    Synonyms

    * collusion, complicitousness, connivance

    Derived terms

    * complicitous

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