| Main Entry: | legitimacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legality |
Synonyms: |
authority, constitutionality, defendability, justice, lawfulness, legitimateness, licitness, permissibility, right, validity |
| Main Entry: | fairness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | justice |
Synonyms: |
candor, charitableness, charity, civility, consideration, courtesy, decency, decorum, disinterestedness, due, duty, equitableness, equity, exactitude, fair shake, fair-mindedness, give and take, good faith, goodness, honesty, honor, humanity, impartiality, integrity, justness, legitimacy, moderation, open-mindedness, propriety, rationality, reasonableness, right, righteousness, rightfulness, rightness, seemliness, square deal, suitability, tolerance, truth, uprightness, veracity |
Antonyms: |
inequity, injustice, partiality, unfairness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | justice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lawfulness, fairness |
Synonyms: |
amends, appeal, authority, authorization, charter, code, compensation, consideration, constitutionality, correction, credo, creed, decree, due process, equity, evenness, fair play, fair treatment, hearing, honesty, impartiality, integrity, judicatory, judicature, justness, law, legal process, legality, legalization, legitimacy, litigation, penalty, reasonableness, recompense, rectitude, redress, reparation, review, right, rule, sanction, sentence, square deal, truth |
| Notes: | revenge is personal and justice is societal |
Antonyms: |
illegality, injustice, lawlessness, partiality, unethicalness, unfairness |
| Main Entry: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suitableness, appropriateness |
Synonyms: |
accordance, advisability, agreeableness, appositeness, aptness, becomingness, compatibility, concord, congruity, consonance, convenience, correctness, correspondence, decorum, ethicality, expedience, fitness, harmony, justice, legitimacy, meetness, morality, order, pleasantness, properness, recommendability, rectitude, respectability, rightness, seemliness, suitability |
Antonyms: |
immorality, impropriety, inappropriateness, unsuitableness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | truth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reality, validity |
Synonyms: |
accuracy, actuality, authenticity, axiom, case, certainty, correctness, dope*, exactitude, exactness, fact, facts, factualism, factuality, factualness, genuineness, gospel truth, gospel, honest truth, infallibility, inside track, legitimacy, maxim, naked truth, nitty-gritty, perfection, picture, plain talk, precision, principle, rectitude, rightness, scoop, score, trueness, truism, truthfulness, unvarnished truth, veracity, verisimilitude, verity, whole story |
Antonyms: |
falsehood, invention, untruth |
| Main Entry: | validity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | genuineness, lawfulness |
Synonyms: |
authority, cogency, effectiveness, efficacy, force, foundation, gravity, grounds, legality, legitimacy, persuasiveness, point, potency, power, punch, right, soundness, strength, substance, validness, weight |
Antonyms: |
invalidity |
| Main Entry: | eminent domain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | governments right to acquire private property for public use |
Synonyms: |
angary, divine right, lawful authority, legal authority, legitimacy, right of eminent domain, rightful authority |
| Main Entry: | authenticity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | genuineness |
Synonyms: |
accuracy, correctness, credibility, dependability, factualness, legitimacy, purity, realness, reliability, trustworthiness, truthfulness, validity, veritableness |
| Main Entry: | genuineness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authenticity |
Synonyms: |
authority, cogency, effectiveness, efficacy, force, foundation, gravity, grounds, legality, legitimacy, persuasiveness, point, potency, power, punch, realness, right, soundness, strength, substance, truthfulness, validity, validness, weight |
| Main Entry: | impartialness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fairness |
Synonyms: |
candor, charitableness, charity, civility, consideration, courtesy, decency, decorum, detachment, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, dispassionateness, due, duty, equitableness, equity, exactitude, fair shake, fair-mindedness, give and take, good faith, goodness, honesty, honor, humanity, impartiality, integrity, justice, justness, legitimacy, moderation, nonpartisanship, objectiveness, objectivity, open-mindedness, propriety, rationality, reasonableness, right, righteousness, rightfulness, rightness, seemliness, square deal, suitability, tolerance, truth, uprightness, veracity |