noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The state of being valid, authentic or genuine. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   the quality of being valid and rigorous wordnet
3. 3
   State of having legal force. countable, uncountable
4. 4
   the quality of having legal force or effectiveness wordnet
5. 5
   A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability). countable, uncountable

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6. 6
   The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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cogencyvalidnessactionabilityadmissibilityadmissiblenessadvantageousness

Example

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"Any doubts about the validity of this argument are promptly forgotten once we see the data."

Etymology

From valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.

Related phrases

face validityformal validity

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