From lawless + -ness.
lawlessness (countable and uncountable, plural lawlessnesses)
- A lack of law and order; anarchy.
- Defiance of the law; outlawry, exorbitant levels of crime.
2009 August 12, Jennifer 8. Lee, “Corruption Found at Waterfront Watchdog”, in The New York Times[1]:The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, created in the 1950s to break the mob’s grip on the docks, became its own bastion of corruption and lawlessnesses, according to a scathing report from the released on Tuesday after a nearly two-year investigation by the state inspector general’s office.
2023 August 28, Gail Collins and Bret Stephens, “Vivek Ramaswamy Is Suddenly Part of Our Political Life”, in The New York Times[2]:We’re in decline because a spirit of lawlessness, shamelessness and brainlessness has become a leading feature of a conservative movement that was supposed to be a bulwark against all three.
lack of law and order
- Arabic: عَدَم وُجُود قَوَانِين m (ʕadam wujūd qawānīn)
- Azerbaijani: qanunsuzluq, hüquqsuzluq, özbaşınalıq
- Belarusian: беззако́нне n (bjezzakónnje), бяспра́ўе n (bjaspráŭje)
- Bulgarian: беззако́ние (bg) n (bezzakónie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無法無天 / 无法无天 (zh) (wúfǎwútiān)
- Crimean Tatar: qanunsızlıq
- Czech: nezákonnost f, bezpráví (cs) n
- Danish: lovløshed c, retsløshed c
- Dutch: wetteloosheid (nl) f
- Finnish: laittomuus (fi)
- French: anarchie (fr) f, illégalité (fr) f
- German: Gesetzlosigkeit f, Zügellosigkeit (de) f
- Greek: ανομία (el) f (anomía), αναρχία (el) f (anarchía)
- Irish: aindlí m
- Italian: illegalità (it) f, Far West m
- Japanese: 無法 (ja) (むほう, muhō)
- Korean: 무법 (ko) (mubeop)
- Latvian: nelikumība f
- Macedonian: беззаконитост f (bezzakonitost)
- Maori: turekoretanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lovløshet m or f, akt (no) m, fredløshet m
- Nynorsk: lovløyse f
- Persian: بیقانونی (bi-qânuni)
- Polish: bezprawie (pl) n, swawola (pl) f
- Portuguese: anarquia (pt) f
- Romanian: anarhie (ro) f, ilegalitate (ro) f (loosely)
- Russian: беззако́ние (ru) n (bezzakónije), беспра́вие (ru) n (besprávije), беспреде́л (ru) m (bespredél) (colloquial)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: бѐспра̄вље n, беза́коње n
- Roman: bèsprāvlje (sh) n, bezákonje (sh) n
- Slovak: nezákonnosť f, bezprávie f
- Slovene: brezzakonje n
- Spanish: iniquidad (es) f
- Swedish: laglöshet (sv) c
- Ukrainian: беззако́ння (uk) n (bezzakónnja), безпра́в'я (uk) n (bezprávʺja)
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