Dictionary entry

Nullity

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Nul″li‐ty (nŭl″lĭ‐ty̆), n.; pl.Nullities. [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? Macaulay.