validity
nounUS [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ti] · /vəˈlɪd.ᵻ.ti/
Etymology From valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.
1
The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
2
State of having legal force.
3
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
Christianity, Lifestyle, Religion, Theology The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.
- Derived terms
- face validity, formal validity