legitimacy
1. lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law (Freq. 1) • Ant: illegitimacy • Derivationally related forms: legitimate • Hypernyms: lawfulness 2. undisputed credibility • Syn: authenticity, genuineness • Derivationally related forms: genuine (for: genuineness), authentic (for: authenticity) • Hypernyms: credibility, credibleness, believability • Hyponyms: real McCoy, real thing, real stuff
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