Nullity : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Nullity	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Nullity
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nullity n the state of nonexistence [syn: nothingness, void, nullity, nihility] something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nullity \Nul"lity\, n.; pl. {Nullities}. [LL. nullitias, fr. L. nullus none: cf. F. nullit[82] . 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.