Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Strength or power in general.
- n. The state or character of being valid. Specifically— Strength or force from being supported by fact; justness; soundness; efficacy: as, the validity of an argument or a proof; the validity of an objection.
- n. Legal efficacy or force; sufficiency in point of law.
- n. Scientific strength or force: as, the validity of a genus.
- n. Value.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
- n. Having legal force.
- n. 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).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being valid; strength; force; especially, power to convince; justness; soundness.
- n. (Law) Legal strength, force, or authority; that quality of a thing which renders it supportable in law, or equity.
- n. obsolete Value.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being valid and rigorous
- n. the quality of having legal force or effectiveness
- n. the property of being strong and healthy in constitution
Examples
“I am familiar with Garcia v San Antonio (which, save for Bush v Gore, may be the least reasoned opinion of the Court I have ever read) but its validity is dubious and its relevance seems weak to the instant bill.”
“Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which reviews patent validity, is extraordinarily pro-patent, the number of issued patents has grown steadily in recent decades.”
Becker-Posner on Drug Patents, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“An extreme example of this would be Saudi Arabia where the government eschews the expression “law” for man-made instruments of government and where their validity is determined by the religious authorities (“the Uléma”) although most Muslims would regard the school of Islam adopted by the Saudi Uléma as heterodox.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Telling Interview with the Director of Amnesty Israel
“And validity is a matter of formal structure, not content.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
“But of course, it must be said that mere validity is not the only important matter.”
“Christmas, while it may lack divine validity, allowing divinity can even claim validity, is nice if only as an excuse to be a little kinder.”
“It is through opposition and response that they gain validity, become “real” enough to cause the stir and scenes they aim to make.”
“SpiceJet will fulfill its promise of emerging as India's leading airline, "We believe in the long term validity of the low cost airline model in India and that fuel prices eventually will stabilise," Chairman & CEO, WL Ross & Co LLC Wilbur L Ross said.”
“She was right on the money with pointing that out, and there is a certain validity to bringing out the handicapped/minorities as someone she cannot respond to, something that both Republicans and Democrats are want to do (black Republicans speaking at the RNC on presidential nomination night anyone?).”
“What validity is there to claims they destroy the local businesses?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘validity’.
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-dity
absurdity, acidity, acridity, algidity, aridity, bifidity, calidity, commodity, crudity, discommodity, facundity, fecundity and 93 more...
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PHIL - vocabulary of thinking
Athenian, Socratic, philosopher, dialogue, philosophy, philosophical, politic, stubborn, bright, smart, thoughtful, extrapolate and 243 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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elij's Words
diegesis, intrinsic, semantic, salience, nonchalant, infosthetics, ambiguous, altruism, cynical, abstruse, vatic, encomium and 137 more...
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Rita's List of Words
preliminary, rudimentary, stance, conduit, locale, implicit, vicissitude, empirical, repository, apophthegm, apothegm, invariable and 431 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1696 more...
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-ity City
enmity, moiety, nemiety, propinquity, levity, lenity, probity, concinnity, serendipity, perspicacity, perspicuity, acuity and 55 more...
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for validity.
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