About The Word Legitimacy

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Legitimacy

Legitimacy Meaning & Definition
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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