conviction vs validity

conviction

noun
  • The state of being wholly convinced. 

  • A judgement of guilt in a court of law. 

  • A firmly held belief. 

  • The state of being found or proved guilty. 

validity

noun
  • The state of being valid, authentic or genuine. 

  • The genuinity - as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity - of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled. 

  • 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). 

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