lack of respect for the law; illegality; anarchy; wildness, unruliness, lack of restraint
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Lawlessness Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Noun
1. a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)
(synonym) anarchy
(hypernym) disorder
(hyponym) nihilism
(classification) government, governing, governance, government activity
2. illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law
(synonym) outlawry
(hypernym) illegality
Lawlessness Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Lawlessness may be:
- lack of law, in any of the various senses of that word (see also law (disambiguation));
- chaos;
- anomie;
- anarchy;
- anarchism
- randomness;
- antinomianism;
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