validation

American  

[val-i-day-shuhn] / ˌvæl ɪˈdeɪ ʃən /

noun

• validations
  plural

1. the act of confirming something as true or correct: You will be prompted to enter your new password a second time for validation.

   The new method is very promising but requires validation through further testing.

   You will be prompted to enter your new password a second time for validation.

2. the act of officially or legally certifying or approving something.

   The proposal will be prioritized and put into action after it undergoes validation by the government.

3. the act of affirming a person, or their ideas, feelings, actions, etc., as acceptable and worthy.

   Recognition and validation of minority cultures by classroom teachers is crucial to student wellbeing and success.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• nonvalidation
  noun
• revalidation
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• validations
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of validation

valid(ate) ( def. ) + -ation ( def. )

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Explanation

Validation is making sure that something is true. Even if you know you're a great poet, you may still long for the validation of being awarded a literary prize or having a volume of your poems published by a respected press. Your winning lottery ticket may require validation — lottery officials have to check it to make sure it's not counterfeit and that you really do have the winning numbers. The word validation is formed from the Latin word for "strong," validus, and validation makes something strong. You may claim that you've danced more tango turns than anyone else in the history of the world, but you'll have to wait for someone from Guinness World Records to give your claim validation.

Example Sentences

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validation validations

All artists are looking for outside validation, Epstein said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Anthropic discovered the incident on September 28, shut down the automated testing process responsible and added a new validation step for future tests, police said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Anthropic also told the police it added an additional validation mechanism for future testing, according to the agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

"Having this conviction quashed is not simply about correcting the record, it's about finally having validation that this is an injustice that never should have happened," the 45-year-old said.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“There’s a reason for all of this,” Skye tells the group, looking to Carlyle for validation.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

“You could tell back in March that these companies were going to have incredible back-half earnings. This Salesforce print is probably one of the first validations of that,” Monaghan said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026

Swinney was asked repeatedly during the BBC interview whether the hospital had received a full set of safety validations for every ward and unit, a question that opposition parties have also been asking.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026

"Without experimental validations as yet, we know the community will be skeptical about this very non-mainstream prediction," Ruan said.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023

One might also ponder the moral incongruity of Downey embracing an Oscar nomination for a performance designed to skewer such validations of reprehensible acts committed in the name of exercising one's craft.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023

Their thinly veiled condescension, their false validations irritated her.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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