lawlessness

English

Etymology

lawless +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

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Noun

lawlessness (countable and uncountable, plural lawlessnesses)

A lack of law and order; anarchy.
Defiance of the law; outlawry, exorbitant levels of crime.

Synonyms

unlaw

Translations

lack of law and order

Arabic: عَدَم وُجُود قَوَانِين m (ʕadam wujūd qawānīn)
Azerbaijani: qanunsuzluq, hüquqsuzluq, özbaşınalıq
Belarusian: беззако́нне n (bjezzakónnje), бяспра́ўе n (bjaspráŭje)
Bulgarian: беззако́ние (bg) n (bezzakónie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 無法無天／无法无天 (zh) (wúfǎwútiān)
Crimean Tatar: qanunsızlıq
Czech: nezákonnost f, bezpráví (cs) n
Danish: lovløshed c, retsløshed c
Dutch: wetteloosheid (nl) f
Finnish: laittomuus (fi)
French: anarchie (fr) f, illégalité (fr) f
German: Gesetzlosigkeit f, Zügellosigkeit (de) f
Greek: ανομία (el) f (anomía), αναρχία (el) f (anarchía)
Irish: aindlí m
Italian: illegalità (it) f, Far West m
Japanese: 無法 (ja) (むほう, muhō)
Korean: 무법 (ko) (mubeop)
Latvian: nelikumība f
Macedonian: беззаконитост f (bezzakonitost)
Maori: turekoretanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lovløshet m or f, akt (no) m, fredløshet m

Nynorsk: lovløyse f
Persian: بی‌قانونی (bi-qânuni)
Polish: bezprawie (pl) n, swawola (pl) f
Portuguese: anarquia (pt) f
Romanian: anarhie (ro) f, ilegalitate (ro) f (loosely)
Russian: беззако́ние (ru) n (bezzakónije), беспра́вие (ru) n (besprávije), беспреде́л (ru) m (bespredél) (colloquial)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: бѐспра̄вље n, беза́коње n

Roman: bèsprāvlje (sh) n, bezákonje (sh) n
Slovak: nezákonnosť f, bezprávie f
Slovene: brezzakonje n
Spanish: iniquidad (es) f
Swedish: laglöshet (sv) c
Ukrainian: беззако́ння (uk) n (bezzakónnja), безпра́в'я (uk) n (bezprávʺja)

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