Definition for Legitimacy:

• Condition of having been born in wedlock.

Synonyms for Legitimacy:

• n.

  •
  • law,
  • legality,
  • lawfulness.
  •
  • fairness,
  • a square deal,
  • tolerance.
  •authenticity (noun)
  • purity,
  • credibility.
  •fairness (noun)
  • courtesy,
  • civility,
  • decorum,
  • seemliness,
  • rightfulness,
  • duty,
  • impartiality,
  • honesty,
  • open-mindedness,
  • justness,
  • exactitude,
  • humanity,
  • honor,
  • charity,
  • decency,
  • rightness,
  • suitability,
  • consideration,
  • due,
  • rationality,
  • fair shake,
  • righteousness,
  • uprightness,
  • charitableness,
  • goodness,
  • integrity,
  • candor,
  • disinterestedness,
  • Equitableness,
  • moderation,
  • good faith.
  •propriety (noun)
  • becomingness,
  • Advisability,
  • expedience,
  • consonance,
  • harmony,
  • concord,
  • appositeness,
  • congruity,
  • fitness,
  • properness,
  • convenience,
  • Meetness,
  • respectability,
  • accordance,
  • aptness,
  • order,
  • agreeableness,
  • compatibility,
  • ethicality,
  • pleasantness,
  • correspondence,
  • correctness,
  • recommendability,
  • morality.
  •realness (noun)
  • veridity.
  •truth (noun)
  • fact,
  • actuality,
  • accuracy,
  • maxim,
  • axiom,
  • principle,
  • honest truth,
  • case,
  • factuality,
  • perfection,
  • facts,
  • truism,
  • nitty gritty,
  • certainty,
  • factualism,
  • scoop,
  • unvarnished truth,
  • gospel,
  • factualness,
  • score,
  • verisimilitude,
  • whole story,
  • truthfulness,
  • trueness,
  • exactness,
  • inside track,
  • nitty-gritty,
  • gospel truth,
  • picture,
  • naked truth,
  • plain talk,
  • verity,
  • infallibility,
  • precision.
  •validity (noun)
  • persuasiveness,
  • foundation,
  • effectiveness,
  • efficacy,
  • weight,
  • cogency,
  • power,
  • strength,
  • punch,
  • validness,
  • soundness,
  • point,
  • substance,
  • force,
  • gravity,
  • grounds,
  • potency.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • guiltless,
  • rightful,
  • Legitimateness,
  • clean,
  • current,
  • legal,
  • lawful,
  • aboveboard,
  • legit,
  • legally,
  • kosher,
  • innocence,
  • licitness,
  • legitimate,
  • innocent,
  • political correctness.
  •
  • sportsmanship.
  •
  • straight.
  •
  • good.

Paraphrases for Legitimacy:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    credibility.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    illegitimacy.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    illegitimate.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    justification, rightful, mandate, justifiable, accountability, legacy.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    legitimate.
  • Proper noun, singular
    legality, legitimate, lawfulness.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    legitimation, legitimisation, legitimization, legality, validity, legalisation, legalization, permissibility, illegality, Legitimizing, reasonableness, appropriateness, acceptability, Constitutionality, propriety, regularisation, admissibility, rationality, wrongfulness, lawfulness, unlawfulness, eligibility, authority, relevance.

Antonyms for Legitimacy:

• n.

  • attribute
    illegitimacy.
  • Other antonyms:
    unconstitutionality, wrongness, sinfulness, wrongfulness, unjustness, immorality, criminality, iniquitousness, wickedness, badness, iniquity, illegality, unlawfulness.

Legitimacy Sentence Examples:

• They must be reconciled to their rulers so as to harmonize the claims of legitimacy and liberty.

• The marquis declared, however, that one could not better promote the cause of legitimacy, and Vuillet wrote a superb article on the matter.

Homophones for Legitimacy:

• lighting, legitimize, lagostomus, lasting, lightheadedness, lactating, liquidness, locating, listening, Lucidness, listing, lightness, lustiness, legitimise, licitness, lightening, lightning.

Hyponym for Legitimacy:

• n.

  • attribute
    lawfulness.