validity
IPA: vʌɫˈɪdʌti
noun
- The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
- 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.
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Examples of "validity" in Sentences
- And validity is a matter of formal structure, not content.
- What validity is there to claims they destroy the local businesses?
- But of course, it must be said that mere validity is not the only important matter.
- It is through opposition and response that they gain validity, become “real” enough to cause the stir and scenes they aim to make.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?).
- 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.
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