conivência

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin cōnīventia. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ẽsiɐ, (faster pronunciation) -ẽsjɐ Hyphenation: co‧ni‧vên‧ci‧a === Noun === conivência f (plural conivências) connivance (act, quality or condition of what is complicit) complicity (material or moral collaboration in a crime) complicity (attitude of someone who refrains from preventing a crime, an infraction, etc.) leniency (defective compromise, failure, etc.) (botany) convergence (approximation, at the apex, of plant structures that remain free at the base) === Further reading === “conivência”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “conivência”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “conivência”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026