"legitimacy" meaning in All languages combined

See legitimacy on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ləˈd͡ʒɪtɪməsi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-legitimacy.wav [Southern-England] Forms: legitimacies [plural]
Etymology: legitimate + -cy Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|legitimate|cy}} legitimate + -cy Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} legitimacy (countable and uncountable, plural legitimacies)
  1. The quality or state of being legitimate or valid; validity. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (quality of being legitimate or valid; validity): شَرْعِيَّة (šarʕiyya) (Arabic), законност (zakonnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), легитимност (legitimnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 合法 (héfǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), legitimiteetti (Finnish), légitimité [feminine] (French), lexitimidade [feminine] (Galician), კანონიერება (ḳanoniereba) (Georgian), ლეგიტიმურობა (legiṭimuroba) (Georgian), Rechtmäßigkeit [feminine] (German), Legitimität [feminine] (German), legittimità [feminine] (Italian), 正統 (seitō) (Japanese), legitimidade [feminine] (Portuguese), validade [feminine] (Portuguese), validez [feminine] (Portuguese), legitimitate [feminine] (Romanian), зако́нность (zakónnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), закономе́рность (zakonomérnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), легити́мность (legitímnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), legitimidad [feminine] (Spanish), haklılık (Turkish), легіти́мність (lehitýmnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-legitimacy-en-noun-r2lMpiPo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -cy Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 76 24 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cy: 78 22 Disambiguation of 'quality of being legitimate or valid; validity': 97 3
  2. Lawfulness of birth or origin; directness of descent as affecting the royal succession. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-legitimacy-en-noun-~Vu7yCLw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: legitimateness (english: much less common)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for legitimacy meaning in All languages combined (5.7kB)

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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
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