LAWFULNESS Synonyms

• conformity to fact or truth

• the quality of conformity to social expectations

• that which is pleasing or valuable or useful

• moral excellence or admirableness

• the quality of being honest

• southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration

• an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

• moral soundness

• the quality of being just or fair

• the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870

• judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments

• a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

• lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute

• lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law

• undisputed credibility

• the quality of appreciating method and system

• a condition of regular or proper arrangement

• a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct

• a rule or standard especially of good behavior

• a basic truth or law or assumption

• a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system

• rule of personal conduct

• (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature)

• correct or appropriate behavior

• righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest

• adhering to moral principles

• according with conscience or morality

• appropriate conduct; doing the right thing

• conformity to fact or truth

• conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety

• a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior

• something regarded as a normative example

• prescribed guide for conduct or action

• (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice

• a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct

• the duration of a monarch's or government's power

• dominance or power through legal authority

• directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted

• any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order

• a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system

• (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems

• measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths

• exercise authority over; as of nations

• decide with authority

• be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

• decide on and make a declaration about

• have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac

• mark or draw with a ruler

• keep in check

• the quality of being truthful

• the property of being upright in posture

• position at right angles to the horizon

• righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest

• the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong

• any admirable quality or attribute

• morality with respect to sexual relations

• a particular moral excellence