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UNLAWFULNESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does unlawfulness mean?

• UNLAWFULNESS (noun)
The noun UNLAWFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of failing to conform to law

Familiarity information: UNLAWFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• UNLAWFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality of failing to conform to law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("unlawfulness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unlawfulness"):

illegality (unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute)

illegitimacy (unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law)

illicitness (the quality of not conforming strictly to law)

shadiness (of questionable honesty or legality)

Antonym:

lawfulness (the quality of conforming to law)

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UNLAWFULNESS: related words searches

» quality: pronunciation in phonetic transcription
» illegality meaning
» illegitimacy: pronunciation in phonetic transcription
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