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The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.

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  1. n. The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.
  2. n. Nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decree that no legal marriage exists.
  3. n. That which is null.
  4. n. the state of nonexistence
  5. n. something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)
  6. 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.
  7. Nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decreethat no legal marriage exists.
  8. n:100 n. something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)