JUSTIFIABILITY Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

justifiability

noun

Definition of justifiability

as in validity

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Recent Examples of justifiability The mixing of politics and scientific justifiability goes back even to Trump’s first term. — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for justifiability

Noun

The owner of the files caught Krebs’ attention after showing the journalist a scan of his Virginia drivers license, strongly supporting the leak’s validity.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026
The report suggests considering inventory exposure, material-supply risk, and residual value, then developing responses with both economic and ecological validity.

— Cleo Levin, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of validity

Noun

There is a broad debate over the applicability of PNB to modern anti-trust cases, with many legal scholars finding the application of a random number, without any real analysis of the potential harm a merger might cause, to be a fatal flaw.

— Shubha Ghosh, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
The study focused on young, fit, predominantly male participants, which limits its applicability to older or less conditioned groups.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of applicability

Noun

His latest work, The Urgency of Indigenous Values—available via JSTOR’s Path to Open program—not only examines the origins, wisdom, and pertinence of Haudenosaunee beliefs, but also confronts the inherent limitations of such examination.

— Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 22 Apr. 2026
Shackleton has some pertinence for fans of Apple TV’s sci-fi alternate-history series For All Mankind, in which prospectors from the United States and the Soviet Union compete for water resources inside the crater.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2026

Definition of pertinence

Noun

Amazon also said 92 percent of Sponsored Products ads are not given to the highest bidder because the company selects winners based on a combination of price and relevancy to the keyword search.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026
Some brands, such as Lululemon and Ralph Lauren,have managed to maintain relevancy and sales.

— Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of relevancy

Noun

Seattle also committed 10 penalties, including a handful of miscues at inopportune times for an offense that is still getting its bearings under first-year offensive coordinator Brian Fleury.

— Andrew Destin, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
With his day-old stubble and the tough-guy bearing of someone who has spent decades portraying fearsome characters like Ray Donovan and the X-Men’s Sabretooth, Liev Schreiber doesn’t look like a man who is afraid of anything.

— Ingrid Abramovitch, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2026