NULLITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)