validity
- (countable, uncountable) The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
- (countable, uncountable) State of having legal force.
- (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).
- (countable, uncountable) The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti/
Etymology
From valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.
Related words
ability
propriety
validité
validez
validità
validade
validesa
Validität
εγκυρότητα ważność
κύρος
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