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{
"term": "validity",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the state of being legally or officially acceptable",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The period of validity of the agreement has expired."
},
{
"text": "The judges upheld the validity of the previous judgement."
},
{
"text": "The legal validity of the claims has been challenged."
}
],
"topics": ["Law and justice"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["great", "equal", "doubtful"],
"verb + validity": ["have", "give something", "lend something"],
"preposition": ["of… validity", "validity for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the state of being logical and true",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We had doubts about the validity of their argument."
},
{
"text": "His reputation lends a certain validity to the approach that it might not deserve."
},
{
"text": "The results are of doubtful validity."
},
{
"text": "The theory has the face validity of being consistent with recent findings."
},
{
"text": "the theory's validity for parent-child relationships"
},
{
"text": "to assess the scientific validity of new treatments"
},
{
"text": "Of course we recognize the validity of that argument."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["great", "equal", "doubtful"],
"verb + validity": ["have", "give something", "lend something"],
"preposition": ["of… validity", "validity for"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/vəˈlɪdəti/",
"audio": "va/validity/validity__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/vəˈlɪdəti/",
"audio": "va/validity/validity__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}