Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.

    Gültigkeit

    де́йствительностьdéjstvitelʹnostʹ, го́дностьgódnostʹ, срок де́йствияsrok déjstvija

    ві́рністьvírnistʹ

    the quality of being valid and rigorous

  2. (countable, uncountable)State of having legal force.

    the quality of having legal force or effectiveness

  3. (countable, uncountable)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).

  4. (countable, uncountable)The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.

Examples

18 sentences
  1. He questions the validity of the study.

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  2. Can you prove the validity of your assertion?

    deKannst du die Richtigkeit deiner Behauptung beweisen?

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  3. He never doubted the validity of this theory.

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  4. This poll doesn't have any degree of validity.

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  5. He never harboured doubts about the validity of this theory.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
the state of being valid, authentic or genuine:
Русский
By meaning 1
the state of being valid, authentic or genuine:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the state of being valid, authentic or genuine:

Origin

From valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.

From valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.

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Forms

plural: validities
Singularvalidity
Pluralvalidities

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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