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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
validity
/væˈlɪdɪti/
noun
how true something is; in statistics: the ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure.
- “About the validity of this theory he never had a doubt.”Tatoeba
- “He never doubted the validity of this theory.”Tatoeba
Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.
Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))