ILLEGALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does illegality mean? 

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

1. unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILLEGALITY (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)