Associations to the word «Validity»

Wiktionary

VALIDITY, noun. The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
VALIDITY, noun. Having legal force.
VALIDITY, noun. 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).

Dictionary definition

VALIDITY, noun. The quality of being valid and rigorous.
VALIDITY, noun. The quality of having legal force or effectiveness.
VALIDITY, noun. The property of being strong and healthy in constitution.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats