invalidity
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- noun
- /ɪnˈvælɪdəti/
- Specialized
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invalidación
- Her assertion lacked logical support, leading to a discussion about the invalidity of her claims in the meeting.
- fear of invalidity
Examples
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And that would, in turn, require honestly confronting the conceptual invalidities that now afflict the diagnosis of depressive disorder.
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Somalia had put forward a series of unconvincing arguments on the invalidity of the MOU.
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Apparently, the increased motivation that fear of invalidity caused did not help participants solve the task.
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The invalidity analysis in Justice Stevens's opinion was not endorsed by any other member of the Court.
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None of the principals involved in the survey had devoted much time to chronic disease or invalidity.
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However, measurement invalidity could result in false negative and false positive evaluations of practices.
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Patients with penetrating head injuries and residual invalidity are usually transferred to a rehabilitation center at the end of their hospitalization.
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Having posed an opposition between white innocence and black victimization, Steele goes on, quite naturally, to suggest the invalidity of both extremes.
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For test scores that follow this pattern, Flanagan and colleagues (2007) recommended that practitioners recognize the invalidity of assessment data and not interpret them for individual students.
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The lawyer pointed out the invalidity of the argument during the debate, showing that the conclusion did not follow from the evidence presented.
Synonyms
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A way of thinking that does not follow clear reasons
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A wrong idea or reason that is not logical
A state of not being legally or logically accepted
A fault in thinking where ideas do not follow
A quality of an idea or argument that has no clear, sensible reasons
A way of thinking that does not follow clear reasons
A situation that is very strange and does not make sense
Antonyms
How Logical
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- Specialized
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- Specialized
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- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word invalidity comes from the parts in- meaning 'not' and valid meaning 'strong' or 'good'. So invalidity is the state of being 'not valid' – not strong or sound, which is why we use it for a wrong or illogical idea or argument.