VALIDITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does validity mean? 

• VALIDITY (noun)
  The noun VALIDITY has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being valid and rigorous

2. the quality of having legal force or effectiveness

  Familiarity information: VALIDITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VALIDITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being valid and rigorous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cogency; rigor; rigour; validity

Hypernyms ("validity" is a kind of...):

believability; credibility; credibleness (the quality of being believable or trustworthy)

Derivation:

valid (well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of having legal force or effectiveness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

validity; validness

Hypernyms ("validity" is a kind of...):

legality (lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "validity"):

effect; force ((of a law) having legal validity)

Derivation:

valid (still legally acceptable)

 Context examples 

Validity and Reliability of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Clinical Global Impression of Change.

(Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Clinical Global Impression of Change Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

You will be able to attract the attention of VIPs and persuade them of the validity of your ideas.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Asthma health status in clinical practice: validity of a new short and simple instrument.

(Airway Questionnaire 20, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

So it was, reasoning thus, that Martin questioned the validity of his popularity.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

An assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else.

(Logical Condition, NCI Thesaurus)

You could have received an inheritance and are deciding how best to invest the money, or if you need to go through probate, you may be awaiting the decision of the court about the will’s validity.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)