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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cōnīventia.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.niˈvẽ.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /ko.niˈvẽ.sjɐ/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.niˈvẽ.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /ko.niˈvẽ.sjɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.niˈvẽ.si.a/ , (faster pronunciation) /ko.niˈvẽ.sja/
- Rhymes: -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)
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