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Definition of illegality:

The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.

Synonyms:

crime, law, felony, misdeed, offense, illegitimacy.

illegality (part of speech: noun)
- injustice,
- unlawfulness,
- actionability,
- lawlessness,
- offensiveness,
- feloniousness,
- wrongfulness,
- illicitness,
- unjustness,
- punishability,
- unconstitutionality,
- criminality
wrongness (part of speech: noun)
- badness,
- untruth,
- falsity,
- incorrectness,
- faultiness,
- flaw,
- wrongness,
- mistake,
- inaccuracy,
- perversion,
- aberration,
- error,
- fallaciousness

Usage examples:

Illegality was, however, checked to some extent by the generally wise and just influence of the chief justice, or kadi, whose probity often formed the best feature of the Arab government in Egypt.

- "The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI.", Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton.
The assembly declared the illegality of previous imposts, voted them provisionally, as long as it continued to sit, and their cessation on its dissolution; it restored the confidence of capitalists by consolidating the public debt, and provided for the necessities of the people, by appointing a committee of subsistence.

- "History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814", F. A. M. Miguet.
In most political cases he accused the government of the grossest injustice, illegality, and oppression.

- "Recollections of Europe", J. Fenimore Cooper.