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Validity vs Expiry - What's the difference?

validity | expiry |

As nouns the difference between expiry and validity

is that expiry is end, termination, expiration while validity is the state of being valid, authentic or genuine.

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).

    • expiry

    English

    Noun

  • (British) end, termination, expiration
  • (British) death

    • Derived terms

    * expiry date