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Implication vs Involvement - What's the difference?

implication | involvement |

As nouns the difference between implication and involvement

is that implication is the act of implicating while involvement is the act of involving, or the state of being involved.

implication

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of implicating.
  • (uncountable) The state of being implicated.
  • (countable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
  • * 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
    • But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.
  • (countable, logic) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".

    • Derived terms

    * material implication * strict implication

    Related terms

    * implicate * implicative * implicit * implicitness * imply

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    involvement

    English

    Alternative forms

    * envolvement

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The act of involving, or the state of being involved.
  • *{{quote-news, year=1988, date=July 8, author=, title=Portfolio Without Artist, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=His colorful life span might be regarded as the story of an adventurer rather than that of an artist; despite his lengthy involvements in many of the arts--painting, fiction, theater, and film--one often feels from his autobiography that it was the adventures that counted most for him. }}