Involvement - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms

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SKIP TO CONTENT involvement /ɪnˈvɑlvmənt/ /ɪnˈvɒlvmənt/ IPA guide

Other forms: involvements

Involvement is the act of participating in something. Even if you do nothing but drive the getaway car, you will be held to account for your involvement in a crime.

Involvement is useful because it is not specific. If, over the course of many years, you play and then coach football, you might refer to the time of your involvement in the sport. If you are engaged in a love affair, you might say, without going into too much detail, that you and your lover are involved and refer to the affair as your involvement.

Definitions of involvement

noun the act of sharing in the activities of a group synonyms: engagement, involution, participation see moresee less antonyms: non-involvement withdrawing from the activities of a group types: show 5 types... hide 5 types... commitment an engagement by contract involving financial obligation intercession, intervention the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) group participation participation by all members of a group incurrence the act of incurring (making yourself subject to something undesirable) intermediation, mediation the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement type of: group action action taken by a group of people
noun the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) synonyms: participation see moresee less type of: condition, status a state at a particular time
noun a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, intimacy, liaison
noun a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something synonyms: interest see moresee less types: show 9 types... hide 9 types... enthusiasm a lively interest concern something that interests you because it is important or affects you Anglomania an excessive enthusiasm for all things English balletomania extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets earth, earthly concern, world, worldly concern the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife affair, matter, thing a matter or concern affairs, personal business, personal matters matters of personal concern part that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation point of honor a concern that seriously reflects on your honor type of: curiosity, wonder a state in which you want to learn more about something
noun a connection of inclusion or containment “he escaped involvement in the accident” “there was additional involvement of the liver and spleen” see moresee less types: implication a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement) comprehension, inclusion the relation of comprising something type of: connectedness, connection, connexion a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)

Pronunciation US /ɪnˈvɑlvmənt/ UK /ɪnˈvɒlvmənt/ Cite this entry Style: MLA

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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ment

This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that turns verbs into nouns.

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