Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: validity
IPA transcription: [vəl'ɪdɪti]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: cogency, validity, rigor, rigour
    Meaning: the quality of being valid and rigorous
  • Synonyms: validity, validness
    Meaning: the quality of having legal force or effectiveness
Usage examples
  • Those who had passed the bill refused to allow the opportunity to test the validity of a tax imposed for the protection of a particular industry.
  • The dreamer to be sure denies their validity, as we have seen in so many cases, even after he has learned of their existence by means of the interpretation.
  • Now, although this cannot be justified in our own impartial judgement, yet it proves that we do really recognise the validity of the categorical imperative and (with all respect for it) only allow ourselves a few exceptions, which we think unimportant and forced from us.
  • Since the validity of the will as a universal law for possible actions is analogous to the universal connexion of the existence of things by general laws, which is the formal notion of nature in general, the categorical imperative can also be expressed thus: Act on maxims which can at the same time have for their object themselves as universal laws of nature.
  • Hence there arises a natural dialectic, i.e., a disposition, to argue against these strict laws of duty and to question their validity, or at least their purity and strictness; and, if possible, to make them more accordant with our wishes and inclinations, that is to say, to corrupt them at their very source, and entirely to destroy their worth- a thing which even common practical reason cannot ultimately call good.