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Validity

//vəˈlɪd.ᵻ.ti// noun

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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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  1. 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

Etymology

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

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