criminality
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criminality
Where it comes from
From French criminalité, from Latin criminalitas, from Latin criminalis. By surface analysis, criminal + -ity.
noun criminalities
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The state of being criminal.
A more limited universe of studies specifically examine criminality among immigrants in the U.S. illegally but also find that they do not commit crimes at a higher rate.
Similar: criminalness, atrociousness, awfulness, badness, corruption, corruptness, criminality, dacoity, depravity, enormity, evil, evilness
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Criminal activity.
rampant criminality
Similar: crime, delinquency
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A criminal act.
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
Similar: crime, criminal offence, criminality, delinquency, malefaction, perpetration, unlaw, unlawfulness
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: criminalness, criminalism, crime, criminal, delinquency, criminalisation, criminalization, incrimination, offending, penalisation, punishability, decriminalization, decriminalisation, lawlessness, banditry, criminology
Translations
Every language
noun state of being criminal
| Español | criminalidad |
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| Português | criminalidade |
| Français | criminalité |
| Deutsch | Kriminalität |
| Italiano | criminalità |
| Русский | престу́пность prestúpnostʹ |
noun criminal act
| Русский | преступле́ние prestuplénije |
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