illegality vs infection

infection vs illegality

illegality and infection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
illegality	Yes	No	No	No
infection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, infection is a hyponym of illegality; that is, infection is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than illegality:

illegality: unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute
infection: (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure

Other hyponyms of illegality include lawlessness, outlawry, unconstitutionality, non-canonicity.

illegality (noun)	infection (noun)
unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute	moral corruption or contamination
	(international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
	the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
	an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
	(medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
	(phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
	the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms

Difference between illegality and infection

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