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Webster 1828 Edition

Lawlessness

LAW'LESSNESS

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Noun.

The quality or state of being unrestrained by law; disorder.

Definition 2024

lawlessness

lawlessness

English

Noun

lawlessness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural lawlessnesses)

a lack of law and order; anarchy
defiance of the law; outlawry

Synonyms

unlaw

Translations

a lack of law and order

Chinese:
Mandarin: 無法無天 (zh), 无法无天 (zh) ‎(wúfǎwútiān)
Crimean Tatar: qanunsızlıq
Danish: lovløshed c
Dutch: wetteloosheid (nl) f
Finnish: laittomuus (fi)
French: anarchie (fr) f , illégalité (fr) f
German: Gesetzlosigkeit f
Greek: ανομία (el) f ‎(anomía), αναρχία (el) f ‎(anarchía)
Irish: aindlí m
Italian: illegalità (it) f

Japanese: 無法 ‎(むほう, muhō)
Latvian: nelikumība f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lovløshet m, f
Polish: bezprawie (pl) n
Portuguese: anarquia (pt) f
Romanian: anarhie (ro) f, ilegalitate (ro) f
Russian: беззако́ние (ru) n ‎(bezzakónije), беспра́вие (ru) n ‎(besprávije)
Serbo-Croatian: bèsprāvlje (sh) n, bezákonje (sh) n
Swedish: laglöshet c