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:

     All of that — the appeal, the access, the illicitness of cigarettes — was by design.