complicitousness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Despite the original promise of freedom and toleration, conspiracy or complicitousness are either sought out or thrust upon such people."
- "Instead, "the people" were invited to hate. . . . Life was a lie, complicitousness in self-enslavement."
- "This book . . . ponders the role, including the complicitousness, of civic audiences in determining and sustaining the authority of political leadership."
Etymology
Etymology tree English complicitous Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English complicitousness From complicitous + -ness.