{
    "term": "validity",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the state of being legally or officially acceptable",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The period of validity of the agreement has expired."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The judges upheld the validity of the previous judgement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The legal validity of the claims has been challenged."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Law and justice"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "equal", "doubtful"],
                "verb + validity": ["have", "give something", "lend something"],
                "preposition": ["of… validity", "validity  for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the state of being logical and true",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We had doubts about the validity of their argument."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His reputation lends a certain validity to the approach that it might not deserve."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The results are of doubtful validity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The theory has the face validity of being consistent with recent findings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the theory's validity for parent-child relationships"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to assess the scientific validity of new treatments"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Of course we recognize the validity of that argument."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "equal", "doubtful"],
                "verb + validity": ["have", "give something", "lend something"],
                "preposition": ["of… validity", "validity  for"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/vəˈlɪdəti/",
                "audio": "va/validity/validity__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/vəˈlɪdəti/",
                "audio": "va/validity/validity__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}