LEGITIMISATION Antonyms

• a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing

• the expression of disapproval

• an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group

• the act of disapproving or condemning

• (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc)

• when a person's thoughts and feelings are rejected, ignored, or judged.

• the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress

• the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something

• the act of rejecting something

• the state of being rejected

• (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign

• the speech act of rejecting

• rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid

• refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities)

• the exposure of falseness or pretensions

• a vote that blocks a decision

• the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature)

• vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent

• command against

• the state of being held in low esteem

• cause to be distrusted or disbelieved

• damage the reputation of

• reject as false; refuse to accept