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Criminality

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being criminal. uncountable
  2. 2
    the state of being a criminal wordnet
  3. 3
    Criminal activity. uncountable

    "rampant criminality"

  4. 4
    A criminal act. countable

    "The storm-centre of a combined newspaper attack lasting for months, Daylight's character had been torn to shreds. There was no fact in his history that had not been distorted into a criminality or a vice. This public making of him over into an iniquitous monster had pretty well crushed any lingering hope he had of getting acquainted with Dede Mason."

Etymology

From French criminalité, from Latin criminalitas, from Latin criminalis. See criminal.

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