validity

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/vəˈlɪd.ᵻ.ti/
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/vəˈlɪd.ᵻ.ti/ · [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ti] (US) · [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ɾi] (US) · [vəˈlɪd.ə.ɾi] · [vəˈlɪɾ.ə.ti] · /ˈʋæ.lɪ.ɖɪ.ʈi/

Definition of validity

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
  2. (countable, uncountable)State of having legal force.
  3. (countable, uncountable)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).
  4. (countable, uncountable)The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.

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Etymology

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

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