criminality
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French criminalité, from Latin criminalitas, from Latin criminalis. See criminal.
Noun
[edit]criminality (countable and uncountable, plural criminalities)
- (uncountable) The state of being criminal.
- (uncountable) Criminal activity.
- rampant criminality
- 2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 63:
- The memorandum of understanding between the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, the Office of Rail and Road and the police states: "In the absence of a clear indication that serious criminality has caused the accident, RAIB will normally have precedence in respect of the investigation and will assume lead responsibility for the investigation."
- (countable) A criminal act.
- 1910 October, Jack London, chapter VIII, in Burning Daylight, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, part II, pages 181–182:
- 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.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]state of being criminal
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criminal act
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- en:Crime