What does validity mean?

Definitions for validity
vəˈlɪd ɪ tiva·lid·i·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cogency, validity, rigor, rigournoun

    the quality of being valid and rigorous

  2. validity, validnessnoun

    the quality of having legal force or effectiveness

  3. robustness, hardiness, lustiness, validitynoun

    the property of being strong and healthy in constitution

Wiktionary

  1. validitynoun

    The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.

  2. validitynoun

    Having legal force.

  3. validitynoun

    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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  1. validity

    Validity refers to the extent to which a test, measurement, research study, argument or any method, tool or procedure accurately measures or reflects what it is intended to measure or represent. It assures that the results and conclusions drawn are sound and based on strong evidence. It can also refer to the authenticity or correctness of something.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Validitynoun

    the quality or state of being valid; strength; force; especially, power to convince; justness; soundness; as, the validity of an argument or proof; the validity of an objection

  2. Validitynoun

    legal strength, force, or authority; that quality of a thing which renders it supportable in law, or equity; as, the validity of a will; the validity of a contract, claim, or title

  3. Validitynoun

    value

  4. Etymology: [Cf. F. validit, L. validitas strength.]

Wikidata

  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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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of validity in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of validity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of validity in a Sentence

  1. Graham Fletcher:

    We can have no confidence in the validity of a process which is conducted in secret, that is part of the reason why we're so concerned because we have no basis on which to understand why she's been detained.

  2. Stuart Cameron:

    I can see the validity of both theories, but when you're engaged in an investigation, especially a serial killer investigation, you have to keep an open mind. To lock in one theory would be, I think, misguided.

  3. Cris Dush:

    There have been questions regarding the validity of people who have been -- who have voted -- whether or not they exist, again, we're not responding to proven allegations. We are investigating the allegations to determine whether or not they are factual.

  4. Stephen Jay Gould:

    “I emphatically do not assert the general ‘truth’ of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.”

  5. Kelly Armstrong:

    Discounting whistleblowers before the Democrats know what the witnesses have to offer says a lot more about their agenda than it does about the validity of the whistleblowers, procedural mistakes should splatter like paint. It’s messy but the results should be random. In my four years here every mistake DOJ has made has benefited one side and harmed the other. That’s a hell of a coincidence.

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