NOUN | cognition | nuisance | (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers / endangers life and health or is offensive |
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person | nuisance, pain, pain in the neck | a bothersome annoying person |
Sounds | nuw'sahns | |
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Rhymes | abeyance ... virulence: 273 rhymes with ahns... |
Meaning | (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers / endangers life and health or is offensive. | |
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Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
Narrower | abatable nuisance | A nuisance that can remedied (suppressed or extinguished or rendered harmless) |
attractive nuisance | Anything on your premises that might attract children into danger or harm | |
mixed nuisance | A nuisance that is both a public nuisance and a private nuisance at the same time | |
private nuisance | A nuisance that interferes with your interest in and private use and enjoyment of your land | |
public nuisance, common nuisance | A nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public | |
Broader | annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass | Something or someone that causes trouble |
Meaning | A bothersome annoying person. | |
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Synonyms | pain, pain in the neck | |
Broader | unpleasant person, disagreeable person | A person who is not pleasant or agreeable |
Spanish | pena | |
Catalan | pena |
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