legitimacy

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of LEGITIMACY

the quality or state of being legal <the legitimacy of the military dictatorship was not recognized by most other nations>

Synonyms lawfulness, legitimacy

Related Words rightfulness, rightness; permissibility, permissibleness

Near Antonyms badness, immorality, iniquitousness, iniquity, sinfulness, unjustness, wickedness, wrongness; criminality, unconstitutionality

Antonyms illegality, illegitimacy, unlawfulness, wrongfulness

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