'Nullity' definitions:
Definition of 'nullity'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
Something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)
Definition of 'Nullity'
From: GCIDE
- Nullity \Nul"li*ty\ (n[u^]l"l[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. Nullities. [LL. nullitias, fr. L. nullus none: cf. F. nullit['e] . See Null.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) Nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decree that no legal marriage exists. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which is null. [1913 Webster]
- Was it not absurd to say that the convention was supreme in the state, and yet a nullity? --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'nullity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a little thing,
- absence,
- aimlessness,
- cipher,
- dead letter,
- deprivation,
- dud,
- dummy,
- emptiness,
- empty sound,
- futility,
- hardly anything,
- hollow man,
- inanity,
- inessential,
- insignificance,
- insignificancy,
- jackstraw,
- lay figure,
- man of straw,
- marginal matter,
- matter of indifference,
- meaninglessness,
- mere noise,
- mere nothing,
- minor matter,
- nada,
- naught,
- nebbish,
- negation,
- negativeness,
- negativity,
- nihility,
- no great matter,
- nobody,
- noise,
- nonbeing,
- nonentity,
- nonexistence,
- nonoccurrence,
- nonreality,
- nonsensicality,
- nonsubsistence,
- not-being,
- nothing,
- nothing in particular,
- nothing to signify,
- nothingness,
- paltry affair,
- peu de chose,
- phatic communion,
- puppet,
- purposelessness,
- pushover,
- rien du tout,
- scarcely anything,
- senselessness,
- technicality,
- thing of naught,
- trifle,
- unactuality,
- unmeaningness,
- unreality,
- unsignificancy,
- vacancy,
- vacuity,
- vacuum,
- void,
- whiffet,
- whippersnapper,
- zero,
- zilch