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Validity vs Verification - What's the difference?

validity | verification |

As nouns the difference between validity and verification

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

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).

    • verification

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of verifying.
  • The state of being verified.
  • Confirmation; authentication.
    • The detective needs verification of your whereabouts last night.
  • (legal) A formal phrase used in concluding a plea, to denote confirmation by evidence.
  • (mathematics) The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.

    • Derived terms

    * verification principle

    Related terms

    * verificationism * verify * verity * verism * veritable

    See also

    * (Formal verification)