validity

  1. Noun.  The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
  2. Noun.  Having legal force.
  3. Noun.  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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