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VALIDITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being valid and rigorous
Synonyms:
cogency; rigor; rigour; validity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("validity" is a kind of...):
believability; credibility; credibleness (the quality of being believable or trustworthy)
Derivation:
valid (well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of having legal force or effectiveness
Synonyms:
validity; validness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("validity" is a kind of...):
legality (lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "validity"):
effect; force ((of a law) having legal validity)
Derivation:
valid (still legally acceptable)
