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lawlessness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lawlessness has 2 senses
- lawlessness(n = noun.state) anarchy - a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government); Array is a kind of disorder
- lawlessness(n = noun.attribute) outlawry - illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law; Array is a kind of illegality
has particulars: nihilism
Derived forms adjective lawless1, adjective lawless2
Derived form adjective lawless3
THESAURUS
lawlessness
anarchy, anomie, assumption, chaos, civil disobedience, conflict, contention, criminalism, criminality, difference, discord, disobedience, dissension, familiarity, frowardness, hubris, illegality, illicit business, illicitness, impermissibility, imposition, indiscipline, indocility, infraction, infringement, insubordination, intractability, lawbreaking, legal flaw, liberties, liberty abused, license, licentiousness, mobocracy, naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobedience, ochlocracy, outlawry, passive resistance, presumption, presumptuousness, recusancy, strife, technical flaw, transgression, uncooperativeness, undue liberty, unduteousness, undutifulness, unlawfulness, unsubmissiveness, variance, violation, waywardness, willful disobedience, wrongfulnessROGET THESAURUS
lawlessness
Nonobservance
N nonobservance, evasion, inobservance, failure, omission, neglect, laches, laxity, informality, infringement, infraction, violation, transgression, piracy, retraction, retractation, repudiation, nullification, protest, forfeiture, lawlessness, disobedience, bad faith, violating, lawless, transgressive, elusive, evasive, unfulfilled &c (fulfill).Illegality
N illegality, lawlessness, illicitness, breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law, disobedience, unconformity, arbitrariness, antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry, mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law, coup d'etat, le droit du plus fort, argumentum baculinum, illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister, trover and conversion, smuggling, poaching, simony, outlaw, bad man, v, offend against the law, violate the law, infringe the law, break the law, set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute, ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands, smuggle, run, poach, illegal, unlawful, illegitimate, not allowed, prohibited, illicit, contraband, actionable, unwarranted, unwarrantable, unauthorized, informal, unofficial, injudicial, extrajudicial, lawless, arbitrary, despotic, despotical, corrupt, summary, irresponsible, unanswerable, unaccountable, expired, invalid, unchartered, unconstitutional, null and void, a dead letter, lawless, unregulated, illegally, with a high hand, in violation of law.
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