lawlessness

1 a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) [syn: anarchy]

2 illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law [syn: outlawry]

English

Noun

lawlessness

1. a lack of law and order; anarchy
2. defiance of the law; outlawry

Translations

• Swedish: laglöshet

Lawlessness may be:

• lack of law, in any of the various senses of that word (see also law (disambiguation));
• chaos;
• randomness;
• antinomianism.

anarchy, anomie, assumption, chaos, civil disobedience, conflict, contention, criminalism, criminality, difference, discord, disobedience, dissension, familiarity, frowardness, hubris, illegality, illicit business, illicitness, impermissibility, imposition, indiscipline, indocility, infraction, infringement, insubordination, intractability, lawbreaking, legal flaw, liberties, liberty abused, license, licentiousness, mobocracy, naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobedience, ochlocracy, outlawry, passive resistance, presumption, presumptuousness, recusancy, strife, technical flaw, transgression, uncooperativeness, undue liberty, unduteousness, undutifulness, unlawfulness, unsubmissiveness, variance, violation, waywardness, willful disobedience, wrongfulness