illicitness

noun

illicitness

noun

Etymology From illicit + -ness.

1

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:

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