As nouns the difference between confederacy and conspiracy
is that
confederacy is an alliance while
conspiracy is the act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.
As a proper noun Confederacy
is the informal name for the
Confederate States of America, the collection of American states that seceded from the United States in 1861, and fought against the Union in the American Civil War.
confederacy
English
Alternative forms
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Noun
(confederacies)
an alliance
conspiracy
Noun
(conspiracies)
The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.
(legal) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
A group of ravens.
(linguistics) A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.
Derived terms
* conspiracy of silence
* conspiracy theory
Related terms
* conspire
* conspirator
