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unlawfulness

unlawfulness noun: the state of being unlawful.

Noun

unlawfulness (countable and uncountable, plural unlawfulnesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being unlawful.
    • Near-synonyms: criminality, feloniousness, illicitness
    • They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, […] of ceremonies in burial.[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)
  2. (countable) An unlawful act.
    • Near-synonyms: offense; outrage

unlawfulness meaning in Hindi and Kannada

unlawfulness in Hindi

state of being unlawful
अवैधता avaidhtā

unlawfulness in Kannada

ಅನ್ಯಾಯ

Synonyms of unlawfulness

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Antonyms

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Forms of unlawfulness

pluralunlawfulnesses

Origin of unlawfulness

From un- + lawful + -ness.

Questions about unlawfulness

What does unlawfulness mean?
Unlawfulness means the state of being unlawful.
What is unlawfulness in Hindi?
Unlawfulness in Hindi is अवैधता (avaidhtā). See Unlawfulness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is unlawfulness?
Unlawfulness is a noun.
What is the plural of unlawfulness?
The plural of unlawfulness is unlawfulnesses.

Words near unlawfulness in the dictionary

  1. unlawful detainer
  2. unlawful non-citizen
  3. unlawful non-citizens
  4. unlawfullness
  5. unlawfully
  6. unlawfulness
  7. unlawfulnesses
  8. unlawing
  9. unlawlike
  10. unlaws
  11. unlawyered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unlawfulness (page history and authors); unlawfulness (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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