'Legitimacy' definitions:
Definition of 'legitimacy'
(from WordNet)
noun
Lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law [ant: illegitimacy]
noun
Undisputed credibility [syn: authenticity, genuineness, legitimacy]
Definition of 'Legitimacy'
From: GCIDE
- Legitimacy \Le*git"i*ma*cy\ (-[i^]*m[.a]*s[y^]), n. [See Legitimate, a.] The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock. [1913 Webster]
- The doctrine of Divine Right, which has now come back to us, like a thief from transportation, under the alias of Legitimacy. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'legitimacy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute power,
- absolute realism,
- absolutism,
- actionability,
- admissibility,
- admissibleness,
- allowableness,
- applicability,
- artlessness,
- authenticity,
- authority,
- bona fideness,
- competence,
- competency,
- constituted authority,
- constitutional validity,
- constitutionalism,
- constitutionality,
- defensibility,
- delegated authority,
- divine right,
- due process,
- excusability,
- explainability,
- explicability,
- faculty,
- forgivableness,
- genuineness,
- honesty,
- inartificiality,
- indirect authority,
- inherent authority,
- jurisdiction,
- jus divinum,
- justice,
- justiciability,
- justifiability,
- justifiableness,
- lawful authority,
- lawfulness,
- legal authority,
- legal form,
- legal process,
- legalism,
- legality,
- legitimateness,
- licitness,
- lifelikeness,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- naturalism,
- naturalness,
- pardonableness,
- permissibility,
- permissibleness,
- photographic realism,
- power,
- prerogative,
- realism,
- realness,
- reasonability,
- reasonableness,
- regality,
- remissibility,
- right,
- rightful authority,
- rightfulness,
- royal prerogative,
- sanctionableness,
- scope,
- sincerity,
- the say,
- the say-so,
- true-to-lifeness,
- truth to nature,
- unadulteration,
- unaffectedness,
- unfictitiousness,
- unspeciousness,
- unspuriousness,
- unsyntheticness,
- validity,
- veniality,
- verisimilitude,
- vested authority,
- vicarious authority,
- vindicability,
- warrantableness