validity

noun
/vəˈlɪd.ᵻ.ti/

The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.

Other meanings

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).

Related words

face validity
formal validity

Example sentences

“He questions the validity of the study.”
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Word history

From Latin "validitas".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “validity” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.