Exact Match:
- legality
- lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute
Synonyms:
- admissibility,
- admissibleness,
- allowableness,
- defensibility,
- drumhead justice,
- dueness,
- equitableness,
- equity,
- evenhandedness,
- give-and-take,
- justice,
- justifiability,
- justifiableness,
- justification,
- justness,
- lawfulness,
- legitimacy,
- licitness,
- measure for measure,
- meetness,
- nemesis,
- permissibility,
- permissibleness,
- poetic justice,
- properness,
- propriety,
- retributive justice,
- right,
- rightfulness,
- rightness,
- rude justice,
- sanctionableness,
- scales of justice,
- summary justice,
- validity,
- warrantability,
- warrantableness,
- warrantedness,
- what is right
Related Words:
- due process
collapse - (law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards related words >
- poetic justice
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- an outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically) related words >
- ars poetica,
- defensibility,
- drumhead justice,
- dueness,
- equitableness,
- equity,
- evenhandedness,
- give-and-take,
- justice,
- justifiability,
- justifiableness,
- justification,
- justness,
- lawfulness,
- legality,
- measure for measure,
- meetness,
- nemesis,
- poetcraft,
- poetic language,
- poetic license,
- poeticism,
- poetics,
- properness,
- propriety,
- retributive justice,
- right,
- rightfulness,
- rightness,
- rude justice,
- scales of justice,
- summary justice,
- versecraft,
- versemaking,
- versification,
- warrantability,
- warrantedness,
- what is right
- lawfulness
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- the quality of conforming to law related words >
- actionability,
- admissibility,
- admissibleness,
- allowableness,
- applicability,
- constitutional validity,
- constitutionalism,
- constitutionality,
- defensibility,
- drumhead justice,
- due process,
- dueness,
- equitableness,
- equity,
- evenhandedness,
- give-and-take,
- jurisdiction,
- justice,
- justiciability,
- justifiability,
- justifiableness,
- justification,
- justness,
- legal form,
- legal process,
- legalism,
- legality,
- legitimacy,
- legitimateness,
- licitness,
- measure for measure,
- meetness,
- nemesis,
- permissibility,
- permissibleness,
- poetic justice,
- properness,
- propriety,
- retributive justice,
- right,
- rightfulness,
- rightness,
- rude justice,
- sanctionableness,
- scales of justice,
- scope,
- summary justice,
- validity,
- warrantability,
- warrantableness,
- warrantedness,
- what is right
- nemesis
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- (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance related words >
- affliction,
- bane,
- bugbear,
- burden,
- calamity,
- castigation,
- chastening,
- chastisement,
- condign punishment,
- correction,
- crushing burden,
- curse,
- death,
- defensibility,
- deserts,
- destruction,
- disciplinary measures,
- discipline,
- disease,
- drumhead justice,
- dueness,
- equitableness,
- equity,
- evenhandedness,
- evil,
- ferule,
- give-and-take,
- grievance,
- harm,
- infliction,
- judgment,
- judicial punishment,
- justice,
- justifiability,
- justifiableness,
- justification,
- justness,
- lawfulness,
- legality,
- measure for measure,
- meetness,
- open wound,
- pains,
- pains and punishments,
- pay,
- payment,
- penal retribution,
- penalty,
- penology,
- pest,
- pestilence,
- plague,
- poetic justice,
- properness,
- propriety,
- punishment,
- punition,
- retribution,
- retributive justice,
- right,
- rightfulness,
- rightness,
- rude justice,
- running sore,
- scales of justice,
- scourge,
- summary justice,
- thorn,
- torment,
- vexation,
- visitation,
- warrantability,
- warrantedness,
- well-deserved punishment,
- what is right,
- what-for,
- woe
- alternation,
- amends,
- atonement,
- balancing,
- battledore and shuttlecock,
- blow for blow,
- commutation,
- compensation,
- cooperation,
- counteraction,
- counterbalancing,
- counterchange,
- cross fire,
- defensibility,
- drumhead justice,
- dueness,
- equitableness,
- equity,
- evenhandedness,
- exchange,
- expiation,
- give-and-take,
- indemnification,
- indemnity,
- interchange,
- intermutation,
- interplay,
- justice,
- justifiability,
- justifiableness,
- justification,
- justness,
- law of retaliation,
- lawfulness,
- legality,
- lex talionis,
- like for like,
- meetness,
- mutual admiration,
- mutual support,
- mutual transfer,
- mutuality,
- nemesis,
- offsetting,
- permutation,
- poetic justice,
- properness,
- propriety,
- quid pro quo,
- reciprocality,
- reciprocation,
- reciprocity,
- recompense,
- rectification,
- redress,
- reparation,
- repayment,
- restitution,
- retaliation,
- retributive justice,
- revenge,
- right,
- rightfulness,
- rightness,
- rude justice,
- satisfaction,
- scales of justice,
- something for something,
- something in return,
- substitution,
- summary justice,
- talion,
- tit for tat,
- transposal,
- transposition,
- warrantability,
- warrantedness,
- what is right
- admissibility
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- acceptability by virtue of being admissible related words >
- acceptability,
- adequacy,
- adequateness,
- admissibleness,
- admission,
- agreeability,
- allowableness,
- applicability,
- appositeness,
- appropriateness,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- assimilation,
- common sense,
- completeness,
- comprehension,
- comprehensiveness,
- comprisal,
- coverage,
- defensibility,
- eligibility,
- embodiment,
- embracement,
- encompassment,
- envisagement,
- excusability,
- exhaustiveness,
- explainability,
- explicability,
- fairishness,
- felicity,
- fitness,
- fittedness,
- forgivableness,
- goodishness,
- hospitality,
- inclusion,
- inclusiveness,
- incorporation,
- invitingness,
- justifiability,
- justifiableness,
- justness,
- lawfulness,
- legality,
- legitimacy,
- licitness,
- logic,
- logicality,
- logicalness,
- membership,
- openness,
- pardonableness,
- participation,
- passableness,
- permissibility,
- permissibleness,
- plausibility,
- propriety,
- qualification,
- rationality,
- reason,
- reasonability,
- reasonableness,
- reception,
- receptiveness,
- receptivity,
- recipience,
- relevance,
- remissibility,
- sanctionableness,
- satisfactoriness,
- sense,
- sensibleness,
- sound sense,
- soundness,
- sufficiency,
- suitability,
- sweet reason,
- tenability,
- tolerability,
- tolerableness,
- tolerance,
- toleration,
- unexceptionability,
- unobjectionability,
- validity,
- veniality,
- viability,
- vindicability,
- warrantableness,
- whole
- justification
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- the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller
- something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary; "he considered misrule a justification for revolution"
- a statement in explanation of some action or belief related words >
- Intertype,
- Linotype,
- Monotype,
- account,
- apologetic,
- apologia,
- beatification,
- beatitude,
- blessedness,
- blessing,
- canonization,
- cold-type typesetting,
- composing,
- composing stick,
- composition,
- computerized typesetting,
- consecration,
- dedication,
- defense,
- defensibility,
- devotion,
- drumhead justice,
- dueness,
- dummy,
- enshrinement,
- equitableness,
- equity,
- evenhandedness,
- exaltation,
- furniture,
- galley chase,
- give-and-take,
- glorification,
- grace,
- hallowing,
- hot-metal typesetting,
- imposition,
- justice,
- justifiability,
- justifiableness,
- justification by works,
- justness,
- lawfulness,
- layout,
- legality,
- line of type,
- measure for measure,
- meetness,
- nemesis,
- photocomposition,
- photosetting,
- phototypesetter,
- phototypesetting machine,
- poetic justice,
- properness,
- propriety,
- purification,
- quoin,
- rationale,
- rationalization,
- reason,
- retributive justice,
- right,
- rightfulness,
- rightness,
- rude justice,
- sainthood,
- sainting,
- sanctification,
- scales of justice,
- setting,
- setting apart,
- slug,
- state of grace,
- summary justice,
- typesetting,
- typesetting machine,
- warrantability,
- warrantedness,
- what is right
- legitimacy
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- lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law related words >
- absolute power,
- absolute realism,
- absolutism,
- actionability,
- admissibility,
- admissibleness,
- allowableness,
- applicability,
- artlessness,
- authenticity,
- authority,
- bona fideness,
- competence,
- competency,
- constituted authority,
- constitutional validity,
- constitutionalism,
- constitutionality,
- defensibility,
- delegated authority,
- divine right,
- due process,
- excusability,
- explainability,
- explicability,
- faculty,
- forgivableness,
- genuineness,
- honesty,
- inartificiality,
- indirect authority,
- inherent authority,
- jurisdiction,
- jus divinum,
- justice,
- justiciability,
- justifiability,
- justifiableness,
- lawful authority,
- lawfulness,
- legal authority,
- legal form,
- legal process,
- legalism,
- legality,
- legitimateness,
- licitness,
- lifelikeness,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- naturalism,
- naturalness,
- pardonableness,
- permissibility,
- permissibleness,
- photographic realism,
- power,
- prerogative,
- realism,
- realness,
- reasonability,
- reasonableness,
- regality,
- remissibility,
- right,
- rightful authority,
- rightfulness,
- royal prerogative,
- sanctionableness,
- scope,
- sincerity,
- the say,
- the say-so,
- true-to-lifeness,
- truth to nature,
- unadulteration,
- unaffectedness,
- unfictitiousness,
- unspeciousness,
- unspuriousness,
- unsyntheticness,
- validity,
- veniality,
- verisimilitude,
- vested authority,
- vicarious authority,
- vindicability,
- warrantableness
- validity
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- the quality of having legal force or effectiveness related words >
- actionability,
- admissibility,
- admissibleness,
- advantageousness,
- agreeableness,
- allowableness,
- amperage,
- applicability,
- armipotence,
- auspiciousness,
- authenticity,
- authoritativeness,
- authority,
- beef,
- beneficialness,
- benevolence,
- benignity,
- black power,
- brute force,
- calculability,
- charge,
- charisma,
- class,
- clout,
- cogence,
- cogency,
- compulsion,
- constitutional validity,
- constitutionalism,
- constitutionality,
- dependability,
- desert,
- dint,
- drive,
- due process,
- duress,
- effect,
- effectiveness,
- effectuality,
- efficacy,
- energy,
- excellence,
- expedience,
- fairness,
- faithworthiness,
- favorableness,
- fineness,
- firmness,
- first-rateness,
- flower power,
- force,
- force majeure,
- forcefulness,
- full blast,
- full force,
- goodliness,
- goodness,
- grace,
- gravity,
- healthiness,
- helpfulness,
- influence,
- invincibility,
- jurisdiction,
- justice,
- justiciability,
- justifiableness,
- justness,
- kindness,
- lawfulness,
- legal form,
- legal process,
- legalism,
- legality,
- legitimacy,
- legitimateness,
- licitness,
- main force,
- main strength,
- mana,
- merit,
- might,
- might and main,
- mightiness,
- moxie,
- muscle power,
- niceness,
- permissibility,
- permissibleness,
- pizzazz,
- pleasantness,
- poop,
- potence,
- potency,
- potentiality,
- power,
- power pack,
- power structure,
- power struggle,
- powerfulness,
- predictability,
- prepotency,
- productiveness,
- productivity,
- profitableness,
- puissance,
- pull,
- punch,
- push,
- quality,
- reliability,
- rewardingness,
- rightfulness,
- sanctionableness,
- scope,
- secureness,
- security,
- sinew,
- skillfulness,
- solidity,
- soundness,
- stability,
- staunchness,
- steadfastness,
- steadiness,
- steam,
- strength,
- strong arm,
- substantiality,
- superiority,
- superpower,
- trustworthiness,
- unerringness,
- usefulness,
- value,
- vehemence,
- vigor,
- vim,
- virility,
- virtue,
- virtuousness,
- virulence,
- vitality,
- warrantableness,
- wattage,
- weight,
- wholeness,
- worth
- justice
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- the administration of law; the act of determining rights and assigning rewards or punishments; "justice deferred is justice denied"
- the quality of being just or fair related words >
- Astraea,
- Dike,
- JP,
- Jupiter Fidius,
- Justice,
- Justitia,
- Minos,
- Nemesis,
- Rhadamanthus,
- Themis,
- actionability,
- applicability,
- arbiter,
- arbitrator,
- assured probity,
- balance,
- beak,
- bencher,
- blamelessness,
- blindfolded Justice,
- cardinal virtues,
- character,
- charity,
- cleanness,
- coequality,
- coextension,
- constitutional validity,
- constitutionalism,
- constitutionality,
- correspondence,
- court,
- critic,
- decency,
- detention,
- due process,
- dueness,
- entitledness,
- entitlement,
- equality,
- equation,
- equilibrium,
- equipoise,
- equipollence,
- equiponderance,
- equitableness,
- equity,
- equivalence,
- equivalency,
- erectness,
- estimableness,
- evenness,
- expectation,
- fair play,
- fair-mindedness,
- fairness,
- faith,
- fortitude,
- good character,
- goodness,
- high ideals,
- high principles,
- high-mindedness,
- his honor,
- his lordship,
- his worship,
- honesty,
- honor,
- honorableness,
- hope,
- identity,
- immaculacy,
- impartiality,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- indicator,
- integrity,
- irreproachability,
- irreproachableness,
- judge,
- judger,
- judgment,
- judicatory,
- judicature,
- judicial process,
- judiciary,
- judiciousness,
- jurisdiction,
- justiciability,
- justifiable expectation,
- justness,
- law,
- lawfulness,
- legal form,
- legal process,
- legalism,
- legality,
- legitimacy,
- legitimateness,
- levelness,
- licitness,
- likeness,
- love,
- magistrate,
- meritedness,
- moderator,
- moral excellence,
- moral strength,
- morality,
- natural virtues,
- neutrality,
- nobility,
- objectiveness,
- objectivity,
- par,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- poise,
- principles,
- prison,
- probity,
- proportion,
- prudence,
- punishment,
- pureness,
- purity,
- rectitude,
- referee,
- reputability,
- respectability,
- right,
- righteousness,
- rightfulness,
- scope,
- stainlessness,
- supernatural virtues,
- symmetry,
- temperance,
- the courts,
- the law,
- theological virtues,
- umpire,
- unimpeachability,
- unimpeachableness,
- unspottedness,
- uprightness,
- upstandingness,
- validity,
- virtue,
- virtuousness,
- worthiness
- abatement of differences,
- accommodation,
- adjustment,
- agency,
- alternation,
- arrangement,
- badinage,
- balance,
- ballast,
- banter,
- bargain,
- barter,
- bartering,
- battledore and shuttlecock,
- boomerang,
- brokerage,
- buying and selling,
- chaff,
- changeable,
- colloquial discourse,
- colloquy,
- comeback,
- communication,
- communion,
- commutable,
- commutation,
- commutative,
- composition,
- compromise,
- concession,
- consideration,
- conversation,
- converse,
- conversing,
- convertible,
- cooperation,
- cop-out,
- counter,
- counterbalance,
- counterblast,
- counterblow,
- counterchange,
- counterpoise,
- counterstroke,
- counterweight,
- cross fire,
- deal,
- dealing,
- defensibility,
- desertion of principle,
- discourse,
- doing business,
- drumhead justice,
- dueness,
- equal,
- equalizing,
- equipoise,
- equitableness,
- equity,
- equivalent,
- evasion of responsibility,
- even,
- evenhandedness,
- exchange,
- exchanged,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- giving way,
- good-natured banter,
- harmless teasing,
- horse trading,
- interchange,
- interchangeable,
- interchanged,
- intercourse,
- interlocution,
- intermutation,
- interplay,
- jape,
- jest,
- jive,
- jobbing,
- joke,
- josh,
- justice,
- justifiability,
- justifiableness,
- justification,
- justness,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- lawfulness,
- legality,
- lex talionis,
- makeweight,
- measure for measure,
- meetness,
- merchandising,
- mutual,
- mutual admiration,
- mutual concession,
- mutual support,
- mutual transfer,
- mutuality,
- nemesis,
- offset,
- permutable,
- permutation,
- persiflage,
- pleasantry,
- poetic justice,
- properness,
- propriety,
- quid pro quo,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- rapping,
- reciprocal,
- reciprocality,
- reciprocating,
- reciprocation,
- reciprocative,
- reciprocity,
- recoil,
- reply,
- retailing,
- retaliation,
- retaliatory,
- retort,
- retributive justice,
- return,
- returnable,
- ridicule,
- right,
- rightfulness,
- rightness,
- rude justice,
- scales of justice,
- setoff,
- settlement,
- something for something,
- something of value,
- sport,
- standard,
- summary justice,
- surrender,
- swapped,
- swapping,
- switched,
- tit for tat,
- trade,
- traded,
- trading,
- trafficking,
- transposal,
- transposed,
- transposition,
- twit,
- understanding,
- verbal intercourse,
- warrantability,
- warrantedness,
- what is right,
- wheeling and dealing,
- wholesaling,
- yielding
- propriety
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- correct or appropriate behavior related words >
- Atticism,
- admissibility,
- advantage,
- advantageousness,
- advisability,
- amenities,
- applicability,
- appositeness,
- appropriateness,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- auspiciousness,
- becomingness,
- beneficialness,
- bienseance,
- breeding,
- ceremony,
- chargedness,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- civilities,
- civility,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clearness,
- comeliness,
- conformity,
- convenance,
- convenience,
- convention,
- conventional usage,
- conventionalism,
- conventionality,
- correctitude,
- correctness,
- courtesy,
- criticality,
- crucialness,
- custom,
- decencies,
- decency,
- decorousness,
- decorum,
- defensibility,
- delicacy,
- desirability,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- drumhead justice,
- dueness,
- ease,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- equitableness,
- equity,
- etiquette,
- evenhandedness,
- expedience,
- expediency,
- favorableness,
- feasibility,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- finish,
- fitness,
- fittedness,
- fittingness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- form,
- formality,
- fruitfulness,
- genteelness,
- gentility,
- give-and-take,
- good form,
- good taste,
- goodness,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- happiness,
- health,
- justice,
- justifiability,
- justifiableness,
- justification,
- justness,
- lawfulness,
- legality,
- limpidity,
- loadedness,
- lucidity,
- mannerliness,
- measure for measure,
- meetness,
- modesty,
- mores,
- naturalism,
- naturalness,
- naturism,
- neatness,
- nemesis,
- niceness,
- normalcy,
- normality,
- normalness,
- normativeness,
- opportuneness,
- order,
- orderliness,
- pellucidity,
- percentage,
- perspicuity,
- plainness,
- poetic justice,
- polish,
- politeness,
- politesse,
- politicness,
- pregnancy,
- profit,
- profitability,
- properness,
- propitiousness,
- proprieties,
- protocol,
- prudence,
- pudency,
- pudicity,
- punctilio,
- purity,
- qualification,
- realism,
- refinement,
- regularity,
- relevance,
- respectability,
- restraint,
- retributive justice,
- right,
- righteousness,
- rightfulness,
- rightness,
- ripeness,
- ritual,
- rude justice,
- scales of justice,
- seasonableness,
- sedateness,
- seemliness,
- shame,
- simplicity,
- smoothness,
- social convention,
- social usage,
- straightforwardness,
- suitability,
- suitableness,
- summary justice,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- terseness,
- the proprieties,
- timeliness,
- tradition,
- unaffectedness,
- urbanity,
- usefulness,
- warrantability,
- warrantedness,
- what is right,
- wholesomeness,
- wisdom,
- worthwhileness
- jurisdiction
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- in law; the territory within which power can be exercised related words >
- accountability,
- acme,
- actionability,
- administration,
- agency,
- agentship,
- ambit,
- applicability,
- area,
- arena,
- ascendancy,
- assignment,
- auspices,
- authority,
- authorization,
- bailiwick,
- be-all and end-all,
- beat,
- blue ribbon,
- border,
- borderland,
- bossing,
- bounds,
- brevet,
- care,
- championship,
- charge,
- circle,
- circuit,
- claws,
- clutches,
- command,
- commission,
- commissioning,
- commitment,
- compass,
- confines,
- consignment,
- constitutional validity,
- constitutionalism,
- constitutionality,
- control,
- cure,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- delegated authority,
- delegation,
- demesne,
- department,
- deputation,
- devolution,
- devolvement,
- directorship,
- disposition,
- district,
- domain,
- domination,
- dominion,
- due process,
- effectiveness,
- embassy,
- empery,
- empire,
- empowerment,
- entrusting,
- entrustment,
- errand,
- executorship,
- exequatur,
- eye,
- factorship,
- field,
- first place,
- first prize,
- full power,
- governance,
- government,
- grasp,
- grip,
- gripe,
- guardianship,
- guidance,
- hand,
- hands,
- headship,
- hegemony,
- height,
- helm,
- hemisphere,
- highest,
- hold,
- imperium,
- influence,
- intendance,
- iron hand,
- judicial circuit,
- justice,
- justiciability,
- keeping,
- kingship,
- lawfulness,
- leadership,
- legal form,
- legal process,
- legalism,
- legality,
- legation,
- legitimacy,
- legitimateness,
- license,
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