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NON-INVOLVEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does non-involvement mean? 

NON-INVOLVEMENT (noun)
  The noun NON-INVOLVEMENT has 1 sense:

1. withdrawing from the activities of a groupplay

  Familiarity information: NON-INVOLVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NON-INVOLVEMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Withdrawing from the activities of a group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

non-engagement; non-involvement; nonparticipation

Hypernyms ("non-involvement" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "non-involvement"):

isolation (a country's withdrawal from international politics)

neutrality (nonparticipation in a dispute or war)

Antonym:

involvement (the act of sharing in the activities of a group)


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