1. The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.
2. (Law)
Defn: 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.
NUMB
Numb, a. Etym: [OE. nume, nome, prop., seized, taken, p. p. of nimen
to take, AS. niman, p. p. numen. *7. See Nimble, Nomad, and cf.
Benumb.]
1. Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold. "A stony image, cold and numb." Shak.
2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night. [Obs.] Shak.
NUMB
Numb, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Numbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Numbing.]
Defn: To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion;
to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.
For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. Dryden.
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. Tennyson.
NUMBEDNESS
Numb"ed*ness, n.