Other forms: involvements
Involvement is taking part in something. Deny any involvement, his involvement in the case, parental involvement.
It is the neutral word that turns loaded in context: denying involvement is what a suspect does, and parental involvement is what a school asks for. It covers both being a participant and being implicated. Note involve, involved; and that involved as an adjective has drifted to mean complicated — an involved explanation — which is a separate sense from being involved in something.
1nouninvolvementTaking part in something.
“Parental involvement in school activities helps children do better.”
2nounimplicatedBeing implicated in something.
“The minister denied any involvement in the bribery scandal.”
involvement is participation.
Proto-Indo-European
*welH-
Latin
involvere
Old French
involver
Middle English
involven — to cloud; to encumber; to envelop, surround; to ponder (something); (reflexive) to concern (oneself) with something
English
involve
English, today
involvement
Built from
From involve + -ment. involve comes from Late Middle English involven (“to cloud; to encumber; to envelop, surround; to ponder (something); (reflexive) to concern (oneself) with something”)envolven, envoulven, borrowed from Old French involver, envoudre, or from its etymon Latin involvere, the present active infinitive of Latin involvō (“to roll to or upon something; to roll about; to coil or curl up; to cover; to envelop, wrap up; to overwhelm”), from in- + volvō (“to roll; to tumble”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European welH- (“to turn; to wind (turn coils)”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA