About The Word Legitimacy
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Legitimacy
| Legitimacy Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Legitimacy?
[n] undisputed credibility
[n] lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law
Synonyms | Synonyms for Legitimacy: authenticity |
genuineness
Related Terms | Find terms related to Legitimacy: 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
See Also | believability |
credibility |
credibleness |
lawfulness |
real McCoy |
real stuff |
real thing
Legitimacy In Webster's Dictionary
\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.
The doctrine of Divine Right, which has now come back
to us, like a thief from transportation, under the
alias of Legitimacy. --Macaulay.
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