nullity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the state of nonexistence
    void; nothingness; nihility.
  2. noun something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)

WordNet

Nul"li*ty noun
Etymology
LL. nullitias, fr. L. nullus none: cf. F. nullité . See Null.
Wordforms
plural Nullities
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913