Hypertext Webster Gateway: "nullity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nullity \Nul"li*ty\, n.; pl. {Nullities}. [LL. nullitias, fr. L.
nullus none: cf. F. nullit['e] . See {Null}.]
1. The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of
efficacy or force.
2. (Law) Nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is
a decree that no legal marriage exists.
3. That which is null.
Was it not absurd to say that the convention was
supreme in the state, and yet a nullity ?
--Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
nullity
n : the state of nonexistence [syn: {nothingness}, {void}]
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