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INVOLVEMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of sharing in the activities of a group
Example:
the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities
Synonyms:
engagement; involution; involvement; participation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("involvement" is a kind of...):
group action (action taken by a group of people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "involvement"):
commitment (an engagement by contract involving financial obligation)
intercession; intervention (the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.))
group participation (participation by all members of a group)
Antonym:
non-involvement (withdrawing from the activities of a group)
Derivation:
involve (engage as a participant)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something
Example:
an interest in music
Synonyms:
interest; involvement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("involvement" is a kind of...):
curiosity; wonder (a state in which you want to learn more about something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "involvement"):
enthusiasm (a lively interest)
concern (something that interests you because it is important or affects you)
Derivation:
involve (occupy or engage the interest of)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A connection of inclusion or containment
Example:
there was additional involvement of the liver and spleen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("involvement" is a kind of...):
connectedness; connection; connexion (a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "involvement"):
implication (a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement))
comprehension; inclusion (the relation of comprising something)
Derivation:
involve (have as a necessary feature)
involve (connect closely and often incriminatingly)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.)
Synonyms:
involvement; participation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("involvement" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Derivation:
involve (engage as a participant)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
Synonyms:
affair; affaire; amour; intimacy; involvement; liaison
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("involvement" is a kind of...):
sexual relationship (a relationship involving sexual intimacy)
Context examples:
Patients have no anemia or thrombocytopenia and three or more areas of lymphoid involvement.
(Binet Stage B, NCI Thesaurus)
He feared there must be some decided involvement.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A staging system for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia; it is based upon the presence or absence of anemia and/or thrombocytopenia, and involvement of lymphoid tissues, including splenic lymphoid tissue.
(Binet Staging System, NCI Thesaurus)
The nasal cavity is the most common site of involvement.
(Nasal Type Extranodal NK/T-Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Mediastinal involvement occurs in 80% of patients.
(Nodular Sclerosis Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
A disorder characterized by involvement of the paranasal sinuses.
(Paranasal Sinus Disorder, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
There is usually bilateral ovarian involvement.
(Ovarian Stromal Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
The involvement of Parkin and alpha-synuclein mutations in genetic forms of Parkinson's suggests that failure of ubiquitination and protein degradation may be causative in other forms of Parkinson's.
(Parkinson's Disease Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
A finding indicating that there is a decrease in the size and the extent of tissue involvement by a malignant tumor in a patient.
(Partial remission, NCI Thesaurus)
Sites of involvement include the oral cavity, sinonasal cavity, skin, soft tissues, gastrointestinal tract, and bone.
(Plasmablastic Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
