legitimacy

English

Noun

legitimacy (countable and uncountable, plural legitimacies)

1. The quality of being legitimate or valid; validity.
2. Lawfulness of birth or origin; directness of descent as affecting the royal succession.

Synonyms

• legitimateness (much less common)

Antonyms

• illegitimacy

Translations

quality of being legitimate or valid; validity

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合法 (zh) (héfǎ)

• Finnish: legitimiteetti (fi)
• French: légitimité (fr) f
• German: Rechtmäßigkeit (de) f, Legitimität (de) f
• Italian: legittimità (it) f
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• Japanese: 正統 (ja) (seitō)
• Portuguese: legitimidade (pt) f, validade (pt) f, validez f
• Romanian: legitimitate (ro) f
• Russian: зако́нность (ru) f (zakónnostʹ), закономе́рность (ru) f (zakonomérnostʹ)
• Spanish: legitimidad (es) f
• Turkish: haklılık (tr)