Nul·li·ty n.; pl. Nullities.
  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.
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