validity
English
editEtymology
editFrom valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti/, /vəˈlɪd.ə.ti/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (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
editvalidity (countable and uncountable, plural validities)
- The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
- Synonym: 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).
- (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
editCollocations
editCollocations
- 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
editthe state of being valid, authentic or genuine
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having legal force
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quality of a measurement
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References
edit- "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.
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- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂welh₁- (rule)
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