Complicities

/kəmˈplɪsɪtiz/ noun

Definition

Plural of complicity; instances or cases of being involved with someone else in wrongdoing or having a shared responsibility for something harmful.

Etymology

From complicity (from French complicité, Latin complicitas, from complex 'involved together') plus regular plural -s. The root emphasizes being 'folded together' in guilt or responsibility.

Kelly Says

In modern usage, 'complicity' is increasingly used abstractly—we talk about 'complicity in systemic racism' or 'corporate complicity,' expanding it beyond individual criminal acts to broader structural involvement, which would have surprised its medieval legal-minded originators.

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