'Lawlessness' definitions:
Definition of 'lawlessness'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Lawlessness'
From: GCIDE
- Lawless \Law"less\, a.
- 1. Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim. [1913 Webster]
- He needs no indirect nor lawless course. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or of society; as, lawless men or behavior. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Not subject to the laws of nature; uncontrolled. [1913 Webster]
- Or, meteorlike, flame lawless through the void. --Pope. -- {Law"less*ly}, adv. -- {Law"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lawlessness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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