validity
Pronunciation: /vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti/
The English word “validity” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
- The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
- State of having legal force.
- 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).
- The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.
Etymology
From valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.
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