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validity
/vəˈlɪdəti/
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What does validity mean?
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).
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noun
- The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.
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IPA pronunciation
/vəˈlɪdəti/
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My brother Adams has entered so largely into the validity of the act, that I shall not enlarge on that head.
They trapped him into their power by means of a "safe-conduct"--which they repudiated because no promise to a heretic could have validity.
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But this truth does not seem to have the same validity with regard to such processes as we observed almost since breath began.
Spencer's main object was to substantiate the validity of the Lamarckian principle, the cooperation of which with selection had been doubted by many.