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LEGALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("legality" is a kind of...):
lawfulness (the quality of conforming to law)
Attribute:
legal (established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules)
illegal (prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legality"):
validity; validness (the quality of having legal force or effectiveness)
Antonym:
illegality (unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute)
Derivation:
legal (established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules)
legal (having legal efficacy or force)
