nullity

Other forms of nullity

plural

nullities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nullity

What does nullity mean?

nullity means "the state of nonexistence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nullity?

nullity has 3 syllables: nul-li-ty. The stress falls on "nul".

What is another word for nullity?

Close synonyms include nothingness, void, nihility. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nullity a common word?

nullity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.