nullità

nullity

noun nool-lee-TAH Rare

Origin: Latin nullitas

Also means

nobody

Usage Note

Nullità is feminine and invariable: la nullità, le nullità. In law it denotes the legal invalidity of an act or contract (nullità del contratto). Informally it means a nonentity or nobody: è una nullità ('he's a nobody'). The written accent on the final à signals fixed stress and an invariable plural — like città or libertà.

Examples

"Il giudice ha dichiarato la nullità del contratto."

Natural Translation

The judge declared the contract null and void.

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