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.
© Webster 1913.