validity

English

Etymology

valid +‎ -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti/, /vəˈlɪd.ə.ti/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti/, [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ.ti], [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ.ɾi], /vəˈlɪd.ə.ti/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /vəˈlɪd.ə.ti/, [vəˈlɪd.ə.ɾi]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /vəˈlɪd.ə.ti/, [vəˈlɪd.ə.ɾi], [vəˈlɪɾ.ə.ti]
• Rhymes: -ɪti

Noun

validity (countable and uncountable, plural validities)

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

   Synonym: 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. (Christianity, 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

 

Collocations

Collocations

• universal validity
• general validity
• objective validity
• scientific validity
• absolute validity
• legal validity
• moral validity
• certain validity
• external validity
• internal validity
• predictive validity
• content validity
• ecological validity
• discriminant validity
• convergent validity
• concurrent validity

Translations

the state of being valid, authentic or genuine

• Arabic: صَلَاحِيَّة (ṣalāḥiyya)
• Bulgarian: валидност (bg) f (validnost)
• Catalan: validesa (ca) f, validitat f
• Dutch: geldigheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: valideco
• Finnish: kelpoisuus (fi), aitous (fi), alkuperäisyys (fi)
• French: validité (fr)
• Georgian: სინამდვილე (sinamdvile), ავთენტურობა (avtenṭuroba)
• German: Gültigkeit (de)
• Greek: εγκυρότητα (el) f (egkyrótita)
• Hindi: वैधता (vaidhtā), मान्यता (hi) (mānyatā)
• Hungarian: érvényesség (hu)
• Ido: valideso (io)
• Irish: bailíocht f
• Persian: اعتبار (fa) (e'tebâr)
• Portuguese: validez f, validade (pt) f
• Romanian: validitate (ro) f
• Russian: де́йствительность (ru) f (déjstvitelʹnostʹ), го́дность (ru) f (gódnostʹ), срок де́йствия m (srok déjstvija)
• Spanish: validez (es) f
• Tagalog: pagkamay-bisa
• Turkish: geçerlilik (tr), geçerlik (tr)
• Ukrainian: ві́рність f (vírnistʹ)

having legal force

• Arabic: قَانُونِيَّة (qānūniyya), مَشْرُوعِيَّة (mašrūʕiyya)
• Bashkir: ғәмәл (ğəməl)
• Bulgarian: законност (bg) f (zakonnost)
• Finnish: sitovuus (fi), laillisuus (fi), voimassaolo
• Galician: rebor f, validez f
• Georgian: კანონიერება (ḳanoniereba), მოქმედება (mokmedeba)
• Hungarian: érvényesség (hu)
• Polish: aktualność (pl) f
• Portuguese: validade (pt) f
• Romanian: valabilitate (ro) f, validitate (ro) f
• Turkish: meşruluk (tr), meşruiyet (tr)

quality of a measurement

• Arabic: صَلَاحِيَّة (ṣalāḥiyya)
• Finnish: validiteetti (fi)

References

• "validity", The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. F. L. Cross, Elizabeth A. Livingstone (3rd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. p. 1667.
• “validity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “validity”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “validity”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “validity” (US) / “validity” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.