'Nullification' definitions:
Definition of 'nullification'
(from WordNet)
noun
The states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress
noun
The act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something [syn: nullification, override]
Definition of 'Nullification'
From: GCIDE
- Nullification \Nul`li*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. nullificatio contempt. See Nullify.] The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect. [1913 Webster]
- Right of nullification (U. S. Hist.), the right claimed in behalf of a State to nullify or make void, by its sovereign act or decree, an enactment of the general government which it deems unconstitutional. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'nullification'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- abrogation,
- absolute contradiction,
- annihilation,
- annulment,
- autarky,
- bimetallism,
- cancel,
- canceling,
- cancellation,
- cassation,
- choking,
- choking off,
- contradiction,
- contrary assertion,
- contravention,
- controversion,
- counterbalancing,
- countering,
- countermand,
- counterorder,
- crossing,
- defeasance,
- denial,
- deracination,
- disaffirmation,
- disallowance,
- disavowal,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- disownment,
- disproof,
- economic self-sufficiency,
- elimination,
- eradication,
- extermination,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- extirpation,
- forswearing,
- free enterprise,
- free trade,
- frustration,
- gainsaying,
- governmentalism,
- impugnment,
- invalidation,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- line,
- liquidation,
- localism,
- managed currency,
- negation,
- neutralization,
- noninterference,
- nonintervention,
- offsetting,
- party line,
- party principle,
- planned economy,
- policy,
- polity,
- position,
- price supports,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- public policy,
- pump-priming,
- purge,
- recall,
- recantation,
- refutation,
- renege,
- renunciation,
- repeal,
- repudiation,
- rescinding,
- rescindment,
- rescission,
- retractation,
- retraction,
- reversal,
- revocation,
- revoke,
- revokement,
- rooting out,
- sectionalism,
- setting aside,
- silencing,
- snuffing out,
- stifling,
- strangulation,
- suffocation,
- suppression,
- suspension,
- thwarting,
- undoing,
- uprooting,
- vacation,
- vacatur,
- vitiation,
- voidance,
- voiding,
- waiver,
- waiving,
- withdrawal,
- write-off