criminality

noun

Etymology

From French criminalité, from Latin criminalitas, from Latin criminalis. By surface analysis, criminal + -ity.

  1. derived from criminalis
  2. derived from criminalitas
  3. derived from criminalité

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. Criminal activity.

    • rampant criminality
  3. A criminal act.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for criminality. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA