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ILLEGALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("illegality" is a kind of...):
unlawfulness (the quality of failing to conform to law)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "illegality"):
lawlessness; outlawry (illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law)
infection ((international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure)
Antonym:
legality (lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute)
Derivation:
illegal (prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules)
