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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nullity
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Besides this ground for nullity, other grounds traditionally have been applied even to marriages performed in the church.
▪ Her mouth, a nullity, a bland smear of beige on cream enamel.
▪ If he had answered the wrong question, his decision would be a nullity.
▪ In particular, the mythology was coming to be regarded as history - the first step towards trivialization and eventual nullity.
▪ It did not refer specifically to the grounds upon which the nullity of a public limited company might be ordered.
▪ Looking at the way the Commission had construed the rules, the House decided that the determination was a nullity.
▪ The appellant's construction of successor in title was the correct one and the decision by the F.C.C. was a nullity.
▪ The reason is that, unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nullity

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.]

  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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nullity

1560s, from French nullité (14c.) or directly from Medieval Latin nullitalis, from Latin nullus "not any" (see null).

Wiktionary
nullity

n. 1 The state of being null, or void, or invalid. 2 (context legal English) A void act; a defective proceeding or one expressly declared by statute to be a nullity. 3 (context math English) The difference between the rank of a matrix and the number of columns it has; the dimension of the nullspace of a matrix.

WordNet
nullity

n. the state of nonexistence [syn: nothingness, void]

Wikipedia
Nullity

Nullity may refer to:

  • Legal nullity, something without legal significance
  • Nullity (conflict), a legal declaration that no marriage had ever come into being
  • Nullity, the dimension of the null space of a mathematical operator or matrix
  • Nullity (graph theory), the nullity of the oriented incidence matrix of a graph
  • Nullity, the difference between the size and rank of a subset in a matroid
  • Nullity, a concept in transreal arithmetic denoted by Φ

Usage examples of "nullity".

And more than this, read nine of these cases, which he has published, as I have just done, and observe the absolute nullity of aconite, belladonna, and bryonia, against the symptoms over which they are pretended to exert such palpable, such obvious, such astonishing influences.

Dempsey, conceded a similar allegation to be correct but did not deem it sufficient to render the trial a nullity.

The nullity they were witnessing was having a profound effect on them all, but for some reason Sora was on the brink of hysteria.

No plaint is heard, yet this piece seems dirgelike all the same, an urban portrait of hell, not the fiery traditional hell we usually imagine, but the icy hell of erasure and nullity.

He can find no limit to his agitation this side of vague generality, which is no reality, but a pure nullity, for he respects no territorial or individual circumscriptions, and must regard creation itself as a blunder.

I'm lying there on the iron bed thinking what a zero I have become, what a cipher, what a nullity, when bango!

I saw the Horatio Alger hero, the dream of a sick American, mounting higher and -higher, first messenger, then operator, then manager, then chief, then superintendent, then vice-president, then president, then trust magnate, then beer baron, then Lord of all the Americas, the money god, the god of gods, the clay of clay, nullity on high, zero with ninety-seven thousand decimals fore and aft.

He did make an attempt long ago, but it did not answer, and the poor lady obtained a decree of nullity in Rome: labour lost, alas, since she was led to the guillotine within five minutes of its delivery - virgin martyrs are always depicted carrying a palm, you know.

They will generally have to give it up as hopeless, and renounce the attempt to have, in the intimate associate of their daily life, that idem velle, idem nolle, which is the recognised bond of any society that is really such: or if the man succeeds in obtaining it, he does so by choosing a woman who is so complete a nullity that she has no velle or nolle at all, and is as ready to comply with one thing as another if anybody tells her to do so.

Earlier, Bryan had nominated a nullity in the form of a Missouri senator.

GOD, being all things, is contrary unto nothing, out of which were made all things, and so nothing became something, and Omneity informed Nullity into an Essence.

Anita is disturbed but Michael comminates that he will reserve her case tomorrow for the ordinary Guglielmus even if she should practise a pious fraud during affrication which, from experience, she knows (according to Wadding), to be leading to nullity.

An opaque cloud of black, featureless, untextured, taller than a man, a nullity with a voice.