conivência

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnīventia.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.niˈvẽ.si.ɐ/ [ko.niˈvẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ko.niˈvẽ.sjɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.niˈvẽ.si.a/ [ko.niˈvẽ.sɪ.a], (faster pronunciation) /ko.niˈvẽ.sja/
 

  • Rhymes: -ẽsiɐ, (faster pronunciation) -ẽsjɐ
  • Hyphenation: co‧ni‧vên‧ci‧a

Noun

conivência f (plural conivências)

  1. connivance (act, quality or condition of what is complicit)
  2. complicity (material or moral collaboration in a crime)
  3. complicity (attitude of someone who refrains from preventing a crime, an infraction, etc.)
  4. leniency (defective compromise, failure, etc.)
  5. (botany) convergence (approximation, at the apex, of plant structures that remain free at the base)

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