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BNC: 27034 COCA: 36936
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nullity

noun

nul·​li·​ty ˈnə-lə-tē How to pronounce nullity (audio)
plural nullities
1
a
: the quality or state of being null
especially : legal invalidity
b(1)
(2)
: a mere nothing : nonentity
2
: one that is null
specifically : an act void of legal effect
3
: the number of elements in a basis of a null-space

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Intellectuals may speak of a book or a film as a nullity, claiming it possesses nothing original enough to justify its existence. Legal scholars also use the word; a law passed by a legislature may be called a nullity if, for example, it's so obviously unconstitutional that it's going to be shot down by the courts in no time. And if you're in an unkind mood, you're also free to call a person a nullity, if you're not instead calling him a nobody, a nonentity, or a zero.

Example Sentences

that tiny country's ambassador from the U.S. is usually some nullity who happens to be a friend or supporter of the current president one of the basic themes of the theater of the absurd is the essential nullity of human existence
Recent Examples on the Web The overall Pessoan effect—of fertility and nullity overlaid, of a teeming garden spied through the transparent body of a phantom—gathers into a single sensation extremes of modern exuberance and despair. Benjamin Kunkel, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021 Kyrsten Sinema has spent the last year participating in a Beltway social experiment that might determine whether an intellectual nullity, clad in Instagrammable vintage wear, might be passed off as a brave and serious centrist ideologue. Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2021 The Vatican announces reforms to the legal structures Catholics must follow to achieve marital nullity. Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 6 June 2021 However, the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong and the electoral-system revamp have rendered it a nullity. Aaron Rhodes, National Review, 18 Mar. 2021 Later antislavery champions, including Abraham Lincoln, always considered the Northwest Ordinance to be organic to the Constitution; proslavery advocates came to regard it as an illegitimate nullity. Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020 The digital presentation displays Arthur Rothstein’s 1936 photograph of a dust storm at a barren Oklahoma farm, picturing a father and sons against sky and earth scrubbed to gray nullities. New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020 While vodka is a surprisingly rich entity susceptible to analysis, its purported aim is a nullity. Sergio De La Pava, WSJ, 14 June 2018 Plaintiffs therefore lack standing, the Circuit Court lacks jurisdiction, and the order is a nullity. Connor Sheets, AL.com, 12 Dec. 2017 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1543, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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The first known use of nullity was in 1543
BNC: 27034 COCA: 36936

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