Usually means: Rightful authority recognized and accepted.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word legitimacy:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. legitimacy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. legitimacy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. legitimacy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. legitimacy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. legitimacy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Legitimacy, legitimacy: Wordnik
  7. legitimacy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. legitimacy: Wiktionary
  9. legitimacy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. legitimacy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. legitimacy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. legitimacy: Dictionary.com
  13. legitimacy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Legitimacy (criminal law), Legitimacy (family law), Legitimacy (law), Legitimacy (political), Legitimacy (political science), Legitimacy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Legitimacy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. legitimacy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. legitimacy: Rhymezone
  18. Legitimacy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. legitimacy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. legitimacy: Free Dictionary
  21. legitimacy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. legitimacy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Legitimacy (political science), legitimacy: Legal dictionary
  5. Legitimacy (political science): Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Legitimacy (political science), legitimacy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  3. legitimacy: Anthropological Terms
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. legitimacy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The quality or state of being legitimate or valid; validity.
noun:  Lawfulness of birth or origin; directness of descent as affecting the royal succession.

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