VALIDITY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for VALIDITY?

Need another word that means the same as “validity”? Find 27 synonyms and 30 related words for “validity” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Validity” are: cogency, rigor, rigour, validness, soundness, reasonableness, rationality, logic, defensibility, sustainability, plausibility, viability, effectiveness, power, credibility, believability, force, strength, weight, foundation, substance, substantiality, authority, reliability, authenticity, correctness, genuineness

Validity as a Noun

Definitions of "Validity" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “validity” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• The quality of having legal force or effectiveness.
• The state of being legally or officially binding or acceptable.
• The quality of being valid and rigorous.
• The quality of being logically or factually sound; soundness or cogency.
• The property of being strong and healthy in constitution.

Synonyms of "Validity" as a noun (27 Words)

authenticity	Undisputed credibility. The paper should have established the authenticity of the documents before publishing them.
authority	Official permission; sanction. This book is the final authority on the life of Milton.
believability	(with reference to a fictional character or situation) the quality of being convincing or realistic. Editors have an obligation to provide readers with the information needed to judge the believability of articles they read.
cogency	Persuasive relevance. The cogency of this argument.
correctness	The quality or state of being free from error; accuracy. High end environmental correctness has a price.
credibility	The quality of being trusted and believed in. The government s loss of credibility.
defensibility	Capability of being defended. They built their castles with an eye to their defensibility.
effectiveness	The degree to which something is successful in producing a desired result; success. The effectiveness of the treatment.
force	The army navy and air force of a country. A public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens.
foundation	An underlying basis or principle. There is little foundation for his objections.
genuineness	Undisputed credibility. So many have been touched by her genuineness her indomitable spirit and her love.
logic	The system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine s representation of logical operations. Economic logic requires it.
plausibility	Apparent validity. He offers no support for the plausibility of his theory.
power	The rate of doing work measured in watts or less frequently horse power. The deterrent power of nuclear weapons.
rationality	The quality of being endowed with the capacity to reason. His rationality may have been impaired.
reasonableness	The property of being moderate in price or expenditures. The judiciary is built on the reasonableness of judges.
reliability	The quality of being dependable or reliable. The car s background gives me every confidence in its reliability.
rigor	The quality of being valid and rigorous. The rigors of boot camp.
rigour	Harsh and demanding conditions. The full rigour of the law.
soundness	A state or condition free from damage or decay. Mental and physical soundness.
strength	A good or beneficial quality or attribute of a person or thing. They measured the station s signal strength.
substance	The real physical matter of which a person or thing consists and which has a tangible, solid presence. The substance of his book was the history of allegorical love literature.
substantiality	The quality of being substantial or having substance.
sustainability	Avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance. The sustainability of economic growth.
validness	The quality of having legal force or effectiveness.
viability	Capable of being done in a practical and useful way. The viability of maize pollen is related to its water content.
weight	A unit used to measure weight. Bowed down by the weight of responsibility.

Usage Examples of "Validity" as a noun

• Return travel must be within the validity of the ticket.
• One might question the validity of our data.

Associations of "Validity" (30 Words)

allow	Allow the other baseball team to score. The house was demolished to allow for road widening.
availability	The quality of being at hand when needed. They enquired as to my availability for a game the following evening.
consistency	An attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another. The consistency of measurement techniques.
constitution	The constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states. The genetic constitution of a species.
dependability	The quality of being dependable or reliable. The brand has built its reputation on rock solid dependability.
effect	A physical phenomenon, typically named after its discoverer. The effect of the anesthetic.
enabling	Providing legal power or sanction. An enabling resolution.
hard	Unfortunate or hard to bear. It was raining hard.
hardness	The property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale. The costs of reducing hardness depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present.
integrity	The state of being whole and undivided. The integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development.
legal	Having legal efficacy or force. A yellow legal pad.
legalize	Make legal. The Swiss parliament legalized cannabis.
license	A legal document giving official permission to do something. When liberty becomes license dictatorship is near.
reliability	The degree to which the result of a measurement, calculation, or specification can be depended on to be accurate. The car s background gives me every confidence in its reliability.
rigid	Fixed and unmoving- Connor Cruise O’Brien. Rigid bureaucratic controls.
rigor	The quality of being valid and rigorous. The rigors of boot camp.
rigour	Severity or strictness. The full rigour of the law.
severity	Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather. She stared at me with mock severity.
sincerity	The absence of pretence, deceit, or hypocrisy. The simple sincerity of folk songs.
solidity	The quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally. The sheer strength and solidity of Romanesque architecture.
soundness	The state of being in good condition; robustness. You really have to question the soundness of these measures.
statutory	Having come to be required or expected through being done or made regularly. The statutory Christmas phone call to his mother.
stiffness	The property of moving with pain or difficulty. No mean feat given the stiffness of the competition.
strict	Characterized by strictness severity or restraint. A strict vegetarian.
strongly	In a way that is able to withstand force or wear. She started out swimming strongly.
thereby	By that means or because of that. Students perform in hospitals thereby gaining a deeper awareness of the therapeutic power of music.
therefore	From that fact or reason or as a result used to introduce a logical conclusion therefore adv as a consequence. He was injured and therefore unable to play.
thus	From that fact or reason or as a result used to introduce a logical conclusion thus adv in the way indicated thusly is a nonstandard variant. The Ryder Cup is the highlight of Torrance s career thus far.
uprightness	The state of being in a vertical position. Steadying himself he slowly managed to achieve a state of relative uprightness.
verisimilitude	The appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true. The detail gives the novel some verisimilitude.