illicitness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English illicit Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English illicitness From illicit + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The characteristic of being illicit.
All of that — the appeal, the access, the illicitness of cigarettes — was by design.
2019 March 8, Jeneen Interlandi, “Vaping Is Big Tobacco’s Bait and Switch”, in The New York Times:
Translations (4)
fi luvattomuus (Translations) · pl nielegalność (Translations) · fr illicéité (Translations) · fi laittomuus (Translations)