validity

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.

Noun

validity (countable and uncountable, plural validities)

1. The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
2. 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).

Translations

the state of being valid, authentic or genuine

• Catalan: validesa (ca) f, validitat f
• Dutch: geldigheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: valideco
• Finnish: kelpoisuus (fi), validiteetti (fi), voimassaolo
• French: validité (fr)
• Georgian: სინამდვილე (sinamdvile), ავთენტურობა (avtenṭuroba)
• Greek: εγκυρότητα (el) f (egkyrótita)
• Hungarian: érvényesség (hu)
• Ido: valideso (io)
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• 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)

having legal force

• Bashkir: ғәмәл (ğəməl)
• Finnish: sitovuus, laillisuus (fi), voimassaolo
• Galician: rebor f, validez f
• Georgian: კანონიერება (ḳanoniereba), მოქმედება (mokmedeba)
• Hungarian: érvényesség (hu)
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• Portuguese: validade (pt) f
• Romanian: valabilitate (ro) f, validitate (ro) f
• Turkish: meşruluk (tr), meşruiyet (tr)

a quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct

• Finnish: oikeellisuus (fi)
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