invalidity

Questions about invalidity

What does invalidity mean?

invalidity means "illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses".

How many syllables are in invalidity?

invalidity has 5 syllables and divides as in-va-li-di-ty under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for invalidity?

Close synonyms include invalidness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is invalidity a common word?

invalidity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.