Validity
[və'lɪdɪtɪ] or [və'lɪdəti]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being valid; strength; force; especially, power to convince; justness; soundness; as, the validity of an argument or proof; the validity of an objection.
(n.) Legal strength, force, or authority; that quality of a thing which renders it supportable in law, or equity; as, the validity of a will; the validity of a contract, claim, or title.
(n.) Value.
Typed by Garrett
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Soundness, justness, efficacy, cogency, weight, strength, goodness, force, gravity, importance.
Inputed by Betty
Examples
- Why should he have got into any argument about the validity of these orders? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A meritorious exception, to the rule of the last section, is involved in the adjudicated validity of the Edison incandescent-light patent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The validity of this assumption was finally established by spectrum analysis. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The validity of the acknowledgement a man is given for a day's work is manifestly of quite primary importance to the working of the social machine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No classification can have other than a provisional validity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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