connivance
noun
[ kəˈnʌɪv(ə)ns ]
• willingness to allow or be secretly involved in an immoral or illegal act.
• "this infringement of the law had taken place with the connivance of officials"
Similar:
collusion,
complicity,
collaboration,
involvement,
assistance,
abetting,
tacit consent,
conspiracy,
plotting,
scheming,
intrigue,
machination,
secret understanding,
abetment,
condonation,
Origin:
late 16th century (also in the Latin sense ‘winking’): from French connivence or Latin conniventia, from connivere ‘shut the eyes (to)’ (see connive).
