state vs dead letter

Other hyponyms of state include feeling, skillfulness, cleavage, medium, ornamentation, condition, condition, status, conditionality, ground state, nationhood, situation, state of affairs, relationship, relationship, tribalism, utopia, dystopia, natural state, state of nature, wild, isomerism, degree, level, point, stage, office, power, position, status, being, beingness, existence, face of the earth, nonbeing, death, employ, employment, unemployment, order, disorder, antagonism, enmity, hostility, conflict, illumination, freedom, agency, delegacy, representation, dependance, dependence, dependency, motion, lifelessness, motionlessness, stillness, non-issue, action, activeness, activity, inaction, inactiveness, inactivity, temporary state, forthcomingness, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency, preparation, preparedness, readiness, flux, state of flux, kalemia, enlargement, separation, unification, union, matureness, maturity, immatureness, immaturity, grace, saving grace, state of grace, damnation, eternal damnation, omniscience, omnipotence, flawlessness, ne plus ultra, perfection, integrity, unity, wholeness, imperfection, imperfectness, receivership, ownership, obligation, death, destruction, end, annulment, revocation, merchantability, turgor, homozygosity, heterozygosity, neotony, plurality, polyvalence, polyvalency, multivalence, multivalency, polyvalence, polyvalency, paternity, utilization, technicality.