legitimacy

English

Etymology

From legitimate +‎ -cy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləˈd͡ʒɪtɪməsi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

legitimacy (countable and uncountable, plural legitimacies)

1. The quality or state 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

• Arabic: شَرْعِيَّة (šarʕiyya)
• Bulgarian: законност (bg) f (zakonnost), легитимност f (legitimnost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合法 (zh) (héfǎ)

• Finnish: legitimiteetti (fi)
• French: légitimité (fr) f
• Galician: lexitimidade (gl) f
• Georgian: კანონიერება (ḳanoniereba), ლეგიტიმურობა (legiṭimuroba)
• German: Rechtmäßigkeit (de) f, Legitimität (de) f
• Italian: legittimità (it) f
• 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), легити́мность (ru) f (legitímnostʹ)
• Spanish: legitimidad (es) f
• Turkish: haklılık (tr)
• Ukrainian: легіти́мність f (lehitýmnistʹ)