"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 Forms: validities [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪti Etymology: From 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): صَلَاحِيَّة (ṣalāḥiyya) (Arabic), 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), Gültigkeit (German), εγκυρότητα (egkyrótita) [feminine] (Greek), वैधता (vaidhtā) (Hindi), मान्यता (mānyatā) (Hindi), érvényesség (Hungarian), valideso (Ido), kesahan (Indonesian), bailíocht [feminine] (Irish), validitat [feminine] (Occitan), 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)
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  2. State of having legal force. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (having legal force): قَانُونِيَّة (qānūniyya) (Arabic), مَشْرُوعِيَّة (mašrūʕiyya) (Arabic), 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), kesahan (Indonesian), 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): صَلَاحِيَّة (ṣalāḥiyya) (Arabic), validiteetti (Finnish), kesahihan (Indonesian), validitas (Indonesian), kesahan (Malay), keesahan (Malay)
    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

Inflected forms

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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
          "word": "aitous"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
          "word": "alkuperäisyys"
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "sinamdvile",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
          "word": "სინამდვილე"
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "avtenṭuroba",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
          "word": "ავთენტურობა"
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          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
          "word": "Gültigkeit"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "egkyrótita",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "82 11 3 4",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "vaidhtā",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
          "word": "वैधता"
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          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "mānyatā",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
          "word": "मान्यता"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
          "word": "érvényesség"
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          "code": "io",
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          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
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          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
          "word": "kesahan"
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          "code": "ga",
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          "word": "bailíocht"
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          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "e'tebâr",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
          "word": "اعتبار"
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          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
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          "word": "validez"
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          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
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          "code": "ro",
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          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
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          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "déjstvitelʹnostʹ",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
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          "word": "де́йствительность"
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          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "gódnostʹ",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
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          "word": "го́дность"
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          "roman": "srok déjstvija",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
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          "word": "срок де́йствия"
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          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
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          "word": "validez"
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          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
          "word": "pagkamay-bisa"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "the state of being valid, authentic or genuine",
          "word": "geçerlilik"
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          "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",
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          "roman": "qānūniyya",
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          "roman": "mašrūʕiyya",
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          "word": "مَشْرُوعِيَّة"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "qānūniyya",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "word": "قَانُونِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "mašrūʕiyya",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "word": "مَشْرُوعِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "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": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "having legal force",
      "word": "kesahan"
    },
    {
      "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": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ṣalāḥiyya",
      "sense": "quality of a measurement",
      "word": "صَلَاحِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "quality of a measurement",
      "word": "validiteetti"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "quality of a measurement",
      "word": "kesahihan"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "quality of a measurement",
      "word": "validitas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "quality of a measurement",
      "word": "kesahan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "quality of a measurement",
      "word": "keesahan"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "validity"
  ],
  "word": "validity"
}

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