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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ləˈd͡ʒɪtɪməsi/
• (General American, Canada, General Australian) IPA: /ləˈd͡ʒɪtɪməsi/, [ləˈd͡ʒɪɾɪməsi]

名詞

legitimacy (countable and uncountable, plural legitimacies)

1. The quality or state of being legitimate or valid; validity.
   • 2000, Stuart Nagel, Handbook of Global International Policy, page 193:

     The legitimacy based on a revolutionary essence was replaced by legitimacy with an ultranational, ultra-Yugoslav character.

   1. (by extension, political science) Public acceptance of an institution, such as a government, corporation, or system.
      • 2026 April 18, Jodi Kantor, Adam Liptak, “The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court”, in The New York Times‎, retrieved 22 April 2026:

        Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. warned that if the court failed to stop the president, its own “institutional legitimacy” would be threatened.

      After decades of inequality and oppression, the regime had lost legitimacy with its own population.

      The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 was seen by many as proof of capitalism’s legitimacy over communism.

      Democracy’s legitimacy stems from the consent of the governed.

2. Lawfulness of birth or origin; directness of descent as affecting the royal succession.

同意語

• legitimateness (much less common)

反意語

• illegitimacy

派生語