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illegalities

illegalities is the plural of illegality.

Meaning of illegality

Noun

illegality (countable and uncountable, plural illegalities)

  1. the state of being illegal
    • The criminal was aware of the illegality of his act.
  2. (uncountable) a defense to the validity of a contract because it was in violation of the law
    • When sued for refusing to pay for services provided by a prostitute, the customer raised the defense of illegality.

Questions about illegalities

What is illegalities the plural of?
Illegalities is the plural of illegality.

Words near illegalities in the dictionary

  1. illegalising
  2. illegalism
  3. illegalisms
  4. illegalist
  5. illegalists
  6. illegalities
  7. illegality
  8. illegalization
  9. illegalizations
  10. illegalize
  11. illegalized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: illegalities (page history and authors); illegality (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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