Dictionary Definition
legitimacy
Noun
1 lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in
accordance with law [ant: illegitimacy]
2 undisputed credibility [syn: authenticity, genuineness]
User Contributed Dictionary
Extensive Definition
Legitimacy, from the Latin word
legitimare, may refer to:
Legit may refer to:
- Legit (professional wrestling)
- Legit (TV series)
- Legit Ballin' - record label
- B-Legit - American rapper
- Too Legit to Quit - MC Hammer album
- Too Legit for the Pit: Hardcore Takes the Rap - album of cover versions of hiphop songs
- Constitutional legitimacy
legitimacy in German: Legitimität
legitimacy in Hebrew: לגיטימציה
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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