legitimacy

Other forms of legitimacy

plural

legitimacies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about legitimacy

What does legitimacy mean?

legitimacy means "lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in legitimacy?

legitimacy has 5 syllables: le-git-i-ma-cy. The stress falls on "git". In IPA it is /ləˈdʒɪtəməsi/.

What is another word for legitimacy?

Close synonyms include authenticity, genuineness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of legitimacy?

The recorded antonyms are illegitimacy.

Is legitimacy a common word?

legitimacy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with legitimacy?

1 word rhymes with legitimacy. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.