illicitness

English

Etymology

From illicit +‎ -ness.

Noun

illicitness (uncountable)

  1. The characteristic of being illicit.
    • 2019 March 8, Jeneen Interlandi, “Vaping Is Big Tobacco’s Bait and Switch”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      All of that — the appeal, the access, the illicitness of cigarettes — was by design.
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