nullity
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Noun (2)nullities
- the state of nonexistenceSynonyms: nothingnessvoidnihilityType of nonexistence, nonentityKinds thin air
- something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)Type of act, enactment
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Nul′li·ty (nŭl′lĭ-ty̆), noun; pl. Nullities.
Origin: LL. nullitias, fr. L. nullus none: cf. F. nullité. 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?— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54