0 the condition of being not legal or fair: --
The country’s problem has been the illegitimacy of its own government.
1 the state of being born of parents not married to each other: --
The stigma of illegitimacy was harsh and the usual practice, where possible, was for the mother to go away to have her child.
You might be alerted to illegitimacy by a blank space where a father's name should be on a birth certificate.
It is unclear why illegitimacy rates began rising rapidly four decades ago.
Sealing adoptees' birth certificates was seen as a way to protect children born outside of marriage from the stigma of illegitimacy.
I have feelings about the illegitimacy of the presidency.
By the 1980s, the illegitimacy of this presumption had become widely recognised.
Today's antics highlighted the illegitimacy of a hastily crafted process without established precedent or established rules.
A whistleblower alleged the illegitimacy of the claimed “marketing” payments.