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Vinony

validity

noun

  1. validity in law
  2. extent to which a concept, conclusion or measurement is well-founded and corresponds accurately to the real world
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /vəˈlɪd.ᵻ.ti/ / [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ti] / [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ɾi]

noun

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

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