ETYM French importance. Related to Important.
1. A prominent status; SYN. grandness.
2. The quality of being important and worthy of note.
ETYM Cf. French validité, Latin validitas strength.
The quality of having legal force or effectiveness; SYN. validness.
In logic, a property of inferences or arguments which are valid if the conclusion follows necessarily (by deduction) from the premises, as in a syllogism. The premises may be false, but if they are true the conclusion must be true.
ETYM Old Fren. value, from valoir, p. p. valu, to be worth, from Latin valere to be strong, to be worth. Related to Valiant.
1. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else; SYN. economic value.
2. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
3. A numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
4. An ideal accepted by some individual or group.
5. Relative darkness or lightness of a color.
6. (Music) The relative duration of a musical note; SYN. time value, note value.
ETYM Old Eng. worth, wurth, as. weorth, wurth; weorth, wurth, adj . Related to Worth.
1. An indefinite quantity of something having a specified value.
2. The quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful.