nullity

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.

Nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decree that no legal marriage exists.

That which is null.

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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. Charles Sanders Peirce

Here you see the pattern from which my great work is derived. It expresses the symbolic significance of NULLITY to which TOTALITY must necessarily attach itself, by Kratinjae's Second Law of Cryptorrhoid Affinities, with which you are possibly familiar. Jack Vance

specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved. Max Weber

I realized that there is nothing whatever outside of the life we have; that the "meaning of life" is nothing other than life itself, obstinately asserting itself against emptiness and nullity. Robert Hughes

It is impalpable, illusory, transient; "'tis here, 'tis there, 'tis gone"; a nullity which can nevertheless for a moment endow the multitude with power to uplift or destroy. Karl Jaspers

Any proceeding bereft of jurisdiction is a nullity. Source: Internet

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