VALIDNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of having legal force or effectiveness

Synonyms:

validity; validness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("validness" is a kind of...):

legality (lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "validness"):

effect; force ((of a law) having legal validity)

Derivation:

valid (still legally acceptable)

valid (well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force)