nullity
State of nonexistence
Nullity is the state of being legally void or having no force.
A marriage can be declared a nullity, as though it never existed.
More broadly, nullity describes something without substance or importance—a person of no consequence, an argument without merit: His objections amounted to nullity.
The word carries a sense of emptiness more absolute than mere invalidity.
Complete absence of existence
- absenceState of not being
- nonbeingAbsence of existence
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- negationDenial or cancellation
inexistence · unreality · insubstantiality · nihility · voidness · vacuity · blankness · lacking
Rejection of objective meaning
- voidWithout legal effect
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- negationDenial or cancellation
absence · being · ontology · Sartre · Heidegger · existential · metaphysical · Buddhist
Legal end of matrimony
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- invalidationAct of nullifying
- cancellationVoiding of plans
- rescissionFormal annulment of agreements
revocation · abrogation · separation · termination · quashing · abolition · overturning · reversal
State of being uncompellable
- invalidityState of being void
- incapacityLack of ability
- incompetenceLack of required skill
- illegalityViolation of law
jurisdiction · defect · procedural · grounds · declaration · judgment · petition · statute
nothingness
Complete absence of existence
negation · inexistence · unreality · insubstantiality · nihility · voidness · vacuity · blankness · lacking · nil
nihilism
Rejection of objective meaning
- voidWithout legal effect
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
- emptinessAbsence of substance
negation · absence · being · ontology · Sartre · Heidegger · existential · metaphysical · Buddhist · mu
cipher
Hidden writing system
nil · nothing · zip · nada · goose egg · love · duck · bupkis · zeroed
divorce
Legal end of matrimony
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- invalidationAct of nullifying
- cancellationVoiding of plans
rescission · revocation · abrogation · separation · termination · quashing · abolition · overturning · reversal · voiding
unenforceability
State of being uncompellable
- invalidityState of being void
- incapacityLack of ability
- incompetenceLack of required skill
illegality · jurisdiction · defect · procedural · grounds · declaration · judgment · petition · statute · pleading
- emptinessemptiness, void, vacuum, nothingness, blank
- divorcedivorce court, divorce decree, divorce papers, divorce filing, divorce lawyer
- intellectual propertypatents, copyright, patent, trademark, trademarks
- marriage lawmarriage contract, divorce decree, marriage certificate, matrimony, divorce petition
- Nonexistencenothing, nothingness, nonexistence, void, nil
- oblivionoblivion, nothingness, nonexistence, extinction, annihilation
nullityvalidity
Quality of being sound
legality · enforceability · legitimacy · legal force · binding force
nullitysignificance
Quality of mattering
importance · consequence · weight · magnitude · moment
- jury nullificationPanel ignores law, acquits
nullify, nullification, nullified, nullifying, nullifies, annulling