criminalities

Noun

criminality (countable and uncountable, plural criminalities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being criminal.
   • A more limited universe of studies specifically examine criminality among immigrants in the U.S. illegally but also find that they do not commit crimes at a higher rate.2024 April 11, Ted Hesson, Mica Rosenberg, “Explainer: Trump says migrants are fueling violent crime. Here is what the research shows”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2024

   Synonyms:

   criminalness, atrociousness, awfulness, badness, corruption, corruptness, dacoity, depravity, enormity, evil

2. (uncountable) Criminal activity.
   • rampant criminality

   Synonyms:

   crime, delinquency

3. (countable) A criminal act.
   • The storm-centre of a combined newspaper attack lasting for months, Daylight's character had been torn to shreds. There was no fact in his history that had not been distorted into a criminality or a vice. This public making of him over into an iniquitous monster had pretty well crushed any...1910 October, Jack London, chapter VIII, in Burning Daylight, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, part II, pages 181–182

   Synonyms:

   crime, criminal offence, delinquency, malefaction, perpetration, unlaw, unlawfulness