validity
/vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti/US[vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ti]
validity noun: the state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
Noun
validity (countable and uncountable, plural validities)
- 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
- State of having legal force.
- 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).
- The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.
validity meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
validity in Hindi
- the state of being valid, authentic or genuine
- वैधता vaidhtā, मान्यता mānyatā
validity in Tamil
- செல்லத் தகுநிலை, செல்லத்தக்க நிலை, செல்லுந்தன்மை, செல்லுடைமை, காலக்கெடு, ஏற்புடைமை
validity in Marathi
- validity; the quality or state of being valid
- वैधता vaidhtā
validity in Urdu
- جواز, ثبات, ثبوت
More languagesFewer languages
- validity in Bengali
- যথাযথতা, সঠিকতা, খুঁতশূন্যতা, অকাট্যতা
- validity in Telugu
- చెల్లుబాటు
- validity in Malayalam
- സാധുത sādhuta
- validity in Kannada
- ಸಲವು, ನಡೆಯುವುದು, ಬರು, ತಾಳು
- validity in Punjabi
- ਵੈਧਤਾ
- validity in Tagalog
- pagkamay-bisa
- validity in Arabic
- صَلَاحِيَّة ṣalāḥiyya, قَانُونِيَّة qānūniyya, مَشْرُوعِيَّة mašrūʕiyya
- validity in Malay
- kesahan, keesahan
- validity in Indonesian
- kesahan, kesahihan, validitas
- validity in Persian
- اعتبار e'tebâr
Examples of validity in a sentence
- His argument was spurious and had no validity.
- Helpfulness of self-critiques for synthetic tasks, according to a critique validity oracle.
- That's not completely true, but there is some validity to it.
Synonyms of validity
Forms of validity
| plural | validities |
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Origin of validity
From valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.
Words formed from validity
Words that rhyme with validity
Questions about validity
- What does validity mean?
- Validity means the state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
- What is validity in Hindi?
- Validity in Hindi is वैधता (vaidhtā), मान्यता (mānyatā). See Validity meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is validity?
- Validity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce validity?
- Validity is pronounced /vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti/.
- What is the plural of validity?
- The plural of validity is validities.
Words near validity in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: validity (page history and authors); validity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); वैधता (Marathi) (page history and authors); validity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); validity (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); validity (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); സാധുത (Malayalam) (page history and authors); validity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); validity (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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