Synonyms for legitimacy
lɪˈdʒɪt ə mə sile·git·i·ma·cy

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1. legitimacynoun

   Synonyms:
   legitimateness

2. legitimacynoun

   the quality of being legitimate or valid; validity

   Synonyms:
   legitimateness

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1. legitimacynoun

   lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law

   Synonyms:
   authenticity, genuineness

   Antonyms:
   illegitimacy

2. authenticity, genuineness, legitimacynoun

   undisputed credibility

   Synonyms:
   authenticity, genuineness

   Antonyms:
   illegitimacy

Matched Categories

1. • Credibility
   • Lawfulness

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1. legitimacynoun

   Synonyms:
   legality, lawfulness, accordance with law

2. legitimacynoun

   Synonyms:
   genuineness

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1. List of paraphrases for "legitimacy":

   legality, legitimation, legitimisation, lawfulness, legitimization, legitimate, sharia, validity, justifiability

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1. Pete Buttigieg:

   It's now a reality that there's an out gay candidate, who's a Democrat, who may become president, you may see a greater level of legitimacy among Democratic voters because of that.

2. The FBI alert:

   They research employees who manage money and use language specific to the company they are targeting, then they request a wire fraud transfer using dollar amounts that lend legitimacy.

3. Shadi Hamid:

   If people don't respect democratic outcomes, then obviously that raises the tension considerably, it can lead to a collapse of order of legitimacy for the American nation and our elected government.

4. Lee Drutman:

   The legitimacy of elections is under tremendous fire, the amount of litigation, of challenges, the attempts to game electoral laws, is through the roof. At a certain point, if the greatest enemy is the other party and nothing is seen as legitimate unless your side wins, you don't have that shared sense of fairness that democracy depends on.

5. Rick Hasen:

   It is incredibly dangerous to support people for office who do not accept the legitimacy of the 2020 election. It suggests that they might be willing to bend or break the rules when it comes to running elections and counting votes in the future, someone who claims falsely that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump lacks credibility and can not be trusted to run a fair election.