validity

Plural: validities

Noun

• The quality of being logically sound or legally binding.
• the quality of being valid and rigorous
• the quality of having legal force or effectiveness
• the property of being strong and healthy in constitution
• 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).
• The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.

Examples

• The judge’s ruling confirmed the VALIDITY of the obscure word, much to his opponent’s dismay.

Synonyms

cogency, hardiness, lustiness, rigor, rigour, robustness, validness