"validity" meaning in English

See validity in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti/ [UK], /vəˈlɪd.ə.ti/ [UK], /vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti/ [US], [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ.ti] [US], [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ.ɾi] [US], /vəˈlɪd.ə.ti/ [US], /vəˈlɪd.ə.ti/ [Canada], [vəˈlɪd.ə.ɾi] [Canada], /vəˈlɪd.ə.ti/ [General-Australian], [vəˈlɪd.ə.ɾi] [General-Australian], [vəˈlɪɾ.ə.ti] [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-validity.wav [Southern-England] Forms: validities [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪti Etymology: valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|valid|ity}} valid + -ity, {{bor|en|frm|validité}} Middle French validité, {{der|en|LL.|validitas}} Late Latin validitas, {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂welh₁-|id=rule}} Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} validity (countable and uncountable, plural validities)
  1. The state of being valid, authentic or genuine. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: validness Translations (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine): валидност (validnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), validesa [feminine] (Catalan), validitat [feminine] (Catalan), geldigheid [feminine] (Dutch), valideco (Esperanto), kelpoisuus (Finnish), aitous (Finnish), alkuperäisyys (Finnish), validité (French), სინამდვილე (sinamdvile) (Georgian), ავთენტურობა (avtenṭuroba) (Georgian), εγκυρότητα (egkyrótita) [feminine] (Greek), वैधता (vaidhtā) (Hindi), मान्यता (mānyatā) (Hindi), érvényesség (Hungarian), valideso (Ido), bailíocht [feminine] (Irish), اعتبار (e'tebâr) (Persian), validez [feminine] (Portuguese), validade [feminine] (Portuguese), validitate [feminine] (Romanian), де́йствительность (déjstvitelʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), го́дность (gódnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), срок де́йствия (srok déjstvija) [masculine] (Russian), validez [feminine] (Spanish), pagkamay-bisa (Tagalog), geçerlilik (Turkish), geçerlik (Turkish), ві́рність (vírnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-validity-en-noun-J5tkJwrV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 2 23 32 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 50 2 22 26 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 57 5 16 22 Disambiguation of 'the state of being valid, authentic or genuine': 81 12 3 4
  2. State of having legal force. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (having legal force): ғәмәл (ğəməl) (Bashkir), законност (zakonnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), sitovuus (Finnish), laillisuus (Finnish), voimassaolo (Finnish), rebor [feminine] (Galician), validez [feminine] (Galician), კანონიერება (ḳanoniereba) (Georgian), მოქმედება (mokmedeba) (Georgian), érvényesség (Hungarian), aktualność [feminine] (Polish), validade [feminine] (Portuguese), valabilitate [feminine] (Romanian), validitate [feminine] (Romanian), meşruluk (Turkish), meşruiyet (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-validity-en-noun-4ZFlLFfb Disambiguation of 'having legal force': 1 97 2 1
  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). Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (quality of a measurement): validiteetti (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-validity-en-noun-ncKKG4Nc Disambiguation of 'quality of a measurement': 5 3 89 3
  4. (Christianity, theology) The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Christianity, Theology
    Sense id: en-validity-en-noun-ge7Y7TLo Topics: Christianity, lifestyle, religion, theology
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: face validity, formal validity, universal validity, general validity, objective validity, scientific validity, absolute validity, legal validity, moral validity, certain validity, external validity, internal validity, predictive validity, content validity, ecological validity, discriminant validity, convergent validity, concurrent validity

Inflected forms

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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "validnost",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "validesa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "validitat"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "valideco"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "kelpoisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "aitous"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "alkuperäisyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "validité"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "sinamdvile",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "სინამდვილე"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "avtenṭuroba",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "ავთენტურობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "egkyrótita",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "εγκυρότητα"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "vaidhtā",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "वैधता"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "mānyatā",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "मान्यता"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "érvényesség"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "valideso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bailíocht"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "e'tebâr",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "اعتبار"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "validez"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "validade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "validitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "déjstvitelʹnostʹ",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "де́йствительность"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gódnostʹ",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "го́дность"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
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    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "validez"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "pagkamay-bisa"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "geçerlilik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "word": "geçerlik"
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    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vírnistʹ",
      "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ві́рність"
    },
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      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "ğəməl",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "word": "ғәмәл"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zakonnost",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "законност"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "word": "sitovuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "word": "laillisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "word": "voimassaolo"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rebor"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "validez"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳanoniereba",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "word": "კანონიერება"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mokmedeba",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "word": "მოქმედება"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "word": "érvényesség"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aktualność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "validade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "valabilitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "validitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "word": "meşruluk"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "word": "meşruiyet"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "quality of a measurement",
      "word": "validiteetti"
    }
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