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单词 involvement
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involvementn.

Brit. /ɪnˈvɒlvm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ᵻnˈvɑlvmənt/, /ᵻnˈvɔlvmənt/
Etymology: formed as involve v. + -ment suffix.
1.
a. The action or process of involving; the fact of being involved; the condition of being implicated, entangled, or engaged; engagement, embarrassment; financial or pecuniary embarrassment.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > fact or action of being concerned with
meddlingc1390
implicationc1430
mellingc1440
intermeddling1531
participation1582
mashing1607
trucka1625
concern1643
involvedness1654
interest1660
involvement1706
business1759
immixture1859
involution1886
a piece (also share) of the action1938
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > [noun] > implicit inclusion
involution1611
involvement1706
introvolution1829
implication1873
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > entangling or confining > fact of being entangled
engage1628
engagement1642
involvement1706
1706 A. Shields Church-communion Enquired Into (1747) 46 There is no involvement either in personal guilt or accession to the guilt of others.
1776 T. Hutchinson Diary July II. 80 With frugality [it] would enable me to spend a few weeks abroad without involvement [i.e. in debt].
1802 G. Colman Poor Gentleman (new ed.) v. ii. 74 He has left me in involvements, which, in a few hours, may inclose me in a prison.
1855 T. T. Lynch Lett. to Scattered (1872) vii. 94 How the innocent suffer with the evil, by necessary involvement.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 676 There are certain palsies..in which the muscular structure is..destroyed independently of any involvement of the nervous system.
b. An involved or entangled condition, manner, or style; complicated state of affairs, imbroglio.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun] > a complicated state of affairs
labyrinthc1450
proplexity1487
maze1531
perplexity1563
intricacy1611
intrigo1648
intrigue1660
intricoa1670
wheels within wheels1679
imbroglio1818
involvement1821
scrimmage1852
situation1954
1821 J. Foster Let. in Life & Corr. J. Foster (1846) II. 35 Further complaints of obscurity, involvement, &c.
1862 Fraser's Mag. July 63 The plot..depended..on the ‘involvement’ consequent on the fact that every one except her grandmother is in love with the gentle and lovely Celeste.
1883 Good Words Dec. 791/2 Evil and good..are interlaced together in seemingly hopeless involvement.
1884 Wedmore in Academy 9 Feb. 100 He sets forth his discovery, not with style..but crabbedly, with involvement.
2. An enveloping structure; a wrapping; an envelope, case, or covering. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > enfolding or enveloping > that which or one who
enfolder1545
inwrapper1553
involucre1578
involument1578
burse1601
involvement1632
investment1646
involution1646
mantling1652
involucruma1676
tunicle1678
enveloping1693
envelope1715
enveloper1883
1632 H. Reynolds Mythomystes 30 Orpheus, within the foulds and inuoluements of fables, hid the misteries of his doctrine.
1632 H. Reynolds Mythomystes 80 Among such may they euer rest, safe wrapt up in their huskes and inuoluements.
3. That which is involved or implied in something; a necessary consequence or condition.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > [noun] > inevitability > necessary consequence or condition
involvement1879
society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [noun] > that which is involved or implied
involvement1879
1879 ‘E. Garrett’ House by Wks. I. 110 She will presently see the curious involvements and necessities of English society.
1881 A. C. Fraser Life Berkeley 210 The issue of creative will, rather than necessary involvements of finite experience.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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