LEGALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legality mean? 

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

1. lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEGALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

lawfulness (the quality of conforming to law)

Attribute:

legal (established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules)

illegal (prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules)

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

validity; validness (the quality of having legal force or effectiveness)

Antonym:

illegality (unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute)

Derivation:

legal (established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules)

legal (having legal efficacy or force)