validity

validity definitions

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

  • 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).