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NULLITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("nullity" is a kind of...):
act; enactment (a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body)
Derivation:
null (lacking any legal or binding force)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of nonexistence
Synonyms:
nihility; nothingness; nullity; void
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("nullity" is a kind of...):
nonentity; nonexistence (the state of not existing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nullity"):
thin air (nowhere to be found in a giant void)
