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validity

noun
/vəˈlɪd.ᵻ.ti//vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ti/US/vəˈlɪd.ə.ɾi/CA

Etymology

From valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.

  1. derived from validitas
  2. borrowed from validité

Definitions

  1. The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.

  2. State of having legal force.

  3. A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the…

    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).

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as…

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at validity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at validity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at validity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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