"legality" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: legalities [plural]
Etymology: legal + -ity Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|legal|ity}} legal + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} legality (countable and uncountable, plural legalities)
  1. Lawfulness. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (lawfulness): зако́ннасць (zakónnascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), лега́льнасць (ljehálʹnascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), законност (zakonnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), легалност (legalnost) (Bulgarian), legalitat [feminine] (Catalan), wettigheid (Dutch), laillisuus (Finnish), légalité [feminine] (French), Legalität [feminine] (German), νομιμότητα (nomimótita) [feminine] (Greek), törvényesség (Hungarian), törvényszerűség (Hungarian), jogszerűség (Hungarian), legalità [feminine] (Italian), likumīgums [masculine] (Latvian), likumība [feminine] (Latvian), lovlighet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), legalność [feminine] (Polish), prawność [feminine] (Polish), legalidade [feminine] (Portuguese), legalitate [feminine] (Romanian), зако́нность (zakónnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), лега́льность (legálʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), legalidad [feminine] (Spanish), uhalali (Swahili), చట్టబద్ధత (caṭṭabaddhata) (Telugu), зако́нність (zakónnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), лега́льність (lehálʹnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-legality-en-noun-~LKvfQMV Disambiguation of 'lawfulness': 98 2
  2. A dice game; the same as chuck-a-luck. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-legality-en-noun-7B5u2~Lq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 99 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 1 99 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: pseudolegality, principle of legality

Inflected forms

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