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What is the difference between validity and veracity?

validity | veracity |

As nouns the difference between validity and veracity

is that validity is the state of being valid, authentic or genuine while veracity is truthfulness.

validity

English

Noun

(wikipedia validity)
  • The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
  • Having legal force.
  • 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).
  • veracity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Truthfulness
  • (countable) Something that is true
  • (uncountable) Accuracy or precision
  • act of being exact and accurate.
  • correctness and carefulness in one's plan of action.
  • Synonyms

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