ILLEGALITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)