complicitousness

English

Etymology

complicitous +‎ -ness

Noun

complicitousness (uncountable)

1. (rare, possibly nonstandard) Complicity.
   • 1975, J. S. Lawry, “Green Light or Square of Light in The Great Gatsby,”, in Dalhousie Review, volume 55, number 1, page 118:

     Despite the original promise of freedom and toleration, conspiracy or complicitousness are either sought out or thrust upon such people.

   • 1994, Edward Friedman, “Reconstructing China's National Identity,”, in The Journal of Asian Studies, volume 53, number 1, page 75:

     Instead, "the people" were invited to hate. . . . Life was a lie, complicitousness in self-enslavement.

   • 2006, Andrew Bell, Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11:

     This book . . . ponders the role, including the complicitousness, of civic audiences in determining and sustaining the authority of political leadership.