Definitions for validityvəˈlɪd ɪ ti

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cogency, validity, rigor, rigour(noun)

    the quality of being valid and rigorous

  2. validity, validness(noun)

    the quality of having legal force or effectiveness

  3. robustness, hardiness, lustiness, validity(noun)

    the property of being strong and healthy in constitution


  1. validity(Noun)

    The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.

  2. validity(Noun)

    Having legal force.

  3. validity(Noun)

    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).

Webster Dictionary

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  1. Validity

    In logic, an argument is valid if and only if its conclusion is logically entailed by its premises and each step in the argument is logical. A formula is valid if and only if it is true under every interpretation, and an argument form is valid if and only if every argument of that logical form is valid.

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  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'validity' in Nouns Frequency: #2463

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