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Legitimacy vs Justifiability - What's the difference?

legitimacy | justifiability |

As nouns the difference between legitimacy and justifiability

is that legitimacy is the quality of being legitimate or valid; validity while justifiability is the property of being justifiable.

legitimacy

English

Noun

(head)
  • the quality of being legitimate or valid; validity

    • Synonyms

    * legitimateness (much less common)

    justifiability

    English

    Noun

  • The property of being justifiable.
  • * 1795 January 27th, et al., The Parliamentary Regi?ter; or, An Impartial Report of the Debates that occur in the Two Hou?es of Parliament, in the Cour?e of the Fifth Se??ion of the Seventeenth Parliament of Great Britain, called to meet at We?tmin?ter, on Tue?day the 30th of December 1794 , volume I (London: published by T. Chapman, number 151, Fleet-Street; 1795), page 443
    • War, with re?pect to its ju?tifiability , like many other matters, was that on which men would decide by their moral and religious views of the ?ubject.
  • * 2008 October 14, CXLI:iii] (December 2008), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/27734341.pdf page 403
    • If'' (a) absolute epistemic facts could not exist without being justifiable (the justifiability constraint), and ''if'' (b) one would not be justified in upholding one’s own epistemic system when faced with an actually advocated genuine alternative, ''then , in my view, (c) we are not much better off if such advocates are possible but just happen not to be actual.