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validity

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noun/vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti//vəˈlɪd.ə.ti/[vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ti]
  1. 1

    The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.countableuncountable

    • 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. 2

    State of having legal force.countableuncountable

  3. 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).countableuncountable

  4. 4

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

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