LEGITIMACY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)