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validities

validities is the plural of validity.

Meaning of validity

Noun

validity (countable and uncountable, plural validities)

  1. 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...
    Synonyms:
    validness
  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. The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.

Phrases with validities

Questions about validities

What is validities the plural of?
Validities is the plural of validity.

Words near validities in the dictionary

  1. validifications
  2. validified
  3. validifies
  4. validify
  5. validifying
  6. validities
  7. validity
  8. validly
  9. validness
  10. validoside
  11. valienamine

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