validity — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.

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   Synonyme

   validness

   Beispiele

   As we saw, there are strong suggestions in Marx's works that truth should be understood as meaning 'validity' in relation to human needs.

2. State of having legal force.

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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).

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

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Substantiv

1. the quality of being valid and rigorous

   Synonyme

   cogencyrigorrigour

   Oberbegriffe

   credibilitycrediblenessbelievability

2. the quality of having legal force or effectiveness

   Synonyme

   validness

   Oberbegriffe

   legality