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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
invalidity
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
benefit
▪ If they remain chronically incapacitated for work they can now claim invalidity benefit at a higher rate.
▪ These are child benefits, industrial injuries and death benefits, certain invalidity benefits, and attendance and mobility allowances.
▪ She is now unable to work and receives benefits, including invalidity benefit, amounting to approximately £90.00 per week.
▪ For those who are not in the workforce there are now some non-contributory invalidity benefits.
▪ This includes the state pension, any occupational or personal pension and invalidity benefit.
▪ And he or she will have to find the money from an invalidity benefit of £65.70 a week.
▪ In the 1980 budget, the Government announced that unemployment pay, sickness and invalidity benefit would be liable to tax.
▪ Another feared target is invalidity benefit.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Invalidity

Invalidity \In`va*lid"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. invalidit['e], LL. invaliditas lack of health.]

  1. Lack of validity or cogency; lack of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will.

  2. Lack of health; infirmity. [Obs.]
    --Sir W. Temple.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
invalidity

1540s, from Latin invalidatus (see invalid (adj.)).

Wiktionary
invalidity

n. The state of being invalid; lack of validity.

WordNet
invalidity

n. illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses [syn: invalidness]

Usage examples of "invalidity".

Justice Stone seems to be engaged in an endeavor to erect this into an almost exclusive test of the validity, or invalidity of State taxation affecting interstate commerce.

The laws of both Austra and Nordla derive originally from the Code of Cyad, such of it as remained, and largely from the ensuing case histories, by precedent, and as amended by any proclamations of the lord, provided that the lord justicer does not issue an opinion suggesting the legal invalidity of such a proclamation .

The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.

In the one, the maxim in pari delicto potior est [149] conditio defendentis, and the invalidity of contracts contemplating it, show that the conduct is outside the protection of the law.

For all these concepts, nay, all the questions which pure reason places before us, have their origin, not in experience, but in reason itself, and must therefore be capable of being solved and tested as to their validity or invalidity.