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LEGITIMACY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Undisputed credibility
Synonyms:
authenticity; genuineness; legitimacy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("legitimacy" is a kind of...):
believability; credibility; credibleness (the quality of being believable or trustworthy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legitimacy"):
real McCoy; real stuff; real thing (informal usage attributing authenticity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("legitimacy" is a kind of...):
lawfulness (the quality of conforming to law)
Antonym:
illegitimacy (unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law)
Derivation:
legitimate (make legal)
