'Connivance' definitions:
Definition of 'connivance'
(from WordNet)
noun
Agreement on a secret plot [syn: connivance, collusion]
noun
(law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing [syn: connivance, secret approval, tacit consent]
Definition of 'Connivance'
From: GCIDE
- Connivance \Con*niv"ance\, n. [Cf. F. connivence, L. conniventia.]
- 1. Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or cooperation. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and failure to prevent or oppose it.
- Syn: See Collusion. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'connivance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acceptance,
- accord,
- acquiescence,
- affirmation,
- affirmative,
- affirmative voice,
- agreement,
- approbation,
- approval,
- artifice,
- assent,
- aye,
- blessing,
- cabal,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- collusion,
- compliance,
- complicity,
- complot,
- confederacy,
- connivery,
- consent,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- deep-laid plot,
- dodgery,
- eagerness,
- endorsement,
- engineering,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- foul play,
- frame-up,
- game,
- indulgence,
- intrigue,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- OK,
- okay,
- overlooking,
- permission,
- permissiveness,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- plot,
- plotting,
- promptitude,
- promptness,
- ratification,
- readiness,
- rigging,
- sanction,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- sharp practice,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- stratagem,
- submission,
- sufferance,
- supercherie,
- tolerance,
- toleration,
- trick,
- trickery,
- underhand dealing,
- underplot,
- ungrudgingness,
- unloathness,
- unreluctance,
- web of intrigue,
- willingness,
- winking,
- wire-pulling