LEGITIMATION Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

legitimation

noun

Definition of legitimation

as in legitimization

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Recent Examples of legitimation In this way, modern Druidry represents an example of how practitioners of new religious movements look to the distant past as a source for meaning, inspiration, and legitimation. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026 In August 2025, attorneys filed an emergency petition for legitimation and custody in DeKalb County Superior Court. — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025 As such, placing Israel first actually can be understood as a legitimation of Israel’s violence. — Esther Brito Ruiz, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Acknowledging that most civil law now permits legitimization after the fact, some jurisdictions still discriminate against a child born out of wedlock.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2026
Live Aid was the final step in the legitimization of MTV.

— tom freston, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2025

Definition of legitimization

Noun

NuCube says the resulting data will expand the validation database for its models and could support the future licensing pathway for its reactor technology.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
Prompts, task decomposition and validation thresholds are calibrated against its behavior, so when the model changes, the tuning has to be redone.

— Marcin Nowak, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of validation

Noun

The conservative groups trying to end the ban say getting rid of it could spark the same kind of innovation and revitalization for hard liquor that legalization of homebrewing in the 1970s did for beer.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026
Eight months after legalization, there is still not a single active VGT machine in Chicago, even though 311 establishments have applied for and 42 have received state licenses.

— Joe Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of legalization

Noun

However, farmers often cannot realize the potentially higher prices organic produce can fetch because of a lack of marketing opportunities and formalization.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
Useful formalization by design This is not AxiomProver’s first rodeo.

— Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of formalization

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Since the founding of NATO after World War II, the United States has underwritten Europe’s defense and held the top military command position in the alliance.

— JENNIFER KAVANAGH, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2026
Lake Ontario's name predates the founding of both the United States and Canada.

— Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

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