criminalityEtymologyFrom French criminalité, from Latin criminalitas, from Latin criminalis. By surface analysis, criminal + -ity.criminality means the state of being criminal. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 75 out of 100.nounThe state of being criminal.“A more limited universe of studies specifically examine criminality among immigrants in the U.S. illegally but also find that they do not commit crimes at a higher rate.”Criminal activity.“rampant criminality”A criminal act.“The storm-centre of a combined newspaper attack lasting for months, Daylight's character had been torn to shreds. There was no fact in his history that had not been distorted into a criminality or a vice. This public making of him over into an iniquitous monster had pretty well crushed any lingering hope he had of getting acquainted with Dede Mason.”