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Validity vs Lawfulness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between validity and lawfulness

is that validity is the state of being valid, authentic or genuine while lawfulness is property of being lawful, of obeying the law.

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).

    • lawfulness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Property of being lawful, of obeying the law.
    • His extreme lawfulness made him righteous, but did it make him merciful?