validity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of being valid and rigorous

2. 2
   noun

   the quality of having legal force or effectiveness

3. 3
   noun

   the property of being strong and healthy in constitution

4. 4
   noun

   The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.

5. 5
   noun

   State of having legal force.

6. 6
   noun

   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).

7. 7
   noun

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

Etymology

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