Dictionary

validity en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti/
• (Southern-England) audio
• [vəˈlɪd.ə.ɾi] (Canada)
• /ˈʋæː.lɪˌɖɪ.ʈɪ/ (India, South)
• [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ɾi] (General-American)
• [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ti] (General-American)
• /ʋæːˈlɪ.ɖɪ.ʈiː/ (India, North)
• /vəˈlɪd.ə.ti/
• [vəˈlɪd.ə.ɾi] (Australia)
• [vəˈlɪɾ.ə.ti] (Australia)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
   • As we saw, there are strong suggestions in Marx's works that truth should be understood as meaning 'validity' in relation to human needs. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 156:
2. (countable, uncountable) State of having legal force.
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.

Forms

Deriveds

formal validity · face validity · nonvalidity

Synonyms

validness

Translations (62)

gl rebor (having legal force) · hi वैधता (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · bg валидност (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · fi alkuperäisyys (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · fi sitovuus (having legal force) · it validità (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · hu érvényesség (having legal force) · bg законност (having legal force) · ar صَلَاحِيَّة (quality of a measurement) · es validez (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · nl geldigheid (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · pt validade (having legal force) · tr meşruluk (having legal force) · ro validitate (having legal force) · ru де́йствительность (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · fi kelpoisuus (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · fi aitous (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · oc validitat (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · ru срок де́йствия (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · pt validez (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · id validitas (quality of a measurement) · uk ві́рність (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · tr geçerlilik (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · fi voimassaolo (having legal force) · tr geçerlik (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · fi laillisuus (having legal force) · fa اعتبار (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · de Gültigkeit (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · ca validesa (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · ar قَانُونِيَّة (having legal force) · pl aktualność (having legal force) · ms keesahan (quality of a measurement) · id kesahan (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · tl pagkamay-bisa (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · gl validez (having legal force) · ba ғәмәл (having legal force) · fi validiteetti (quality of a measurement) · ar مَشْرُوعِيَّة (having legal force) · ka კანონიერება (having legal force) · pt validade (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · ga bailíocht (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · eo valideco (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · ro validitate (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · ca validitat (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · io valideso (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · id kesahihan (quality of a measurement) · ka სინამდვილე (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · ro valabilitate (having legal force) · hu érvényesség (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · tr meşruiyet (having legal force) · el εγκυρότητα (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · ka ავთენტურობა (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · fr validité (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · ru го́дность (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · ar صَلَاحِيَّة (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · no rettsgyldighet (having legal force) · hi मान्यता (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · no holdbarhet (quality of a measurement) · no gyldighet (the state of being valid, authentic or genuine) · ka მოქმედება (having legal force) · id kesahan (having legal force) · ms kesahan (quality of a measurement)