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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nullity  \Nul"li*ty\,  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  nullity 
  n  :  the  state  of  nonexistence  [syn:  {nothingness},  {void}] 




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