English → Latin
“nullity” in Latin
nihilnothing; nothing; nihil or nil + the enclitic particle -ne, nihilne or nilne — more emphatic in a negative sense, a strovānitāsemptiness, nothingness; falsity, falsehood, deception, untruth, untrustworthiness, fickleness; vanity, vaingloryinānitāsemptiness, empty space; uselessness, inanityirritusinvalid, void, null and void; ineffective, useless, irrelevantvānusvain, empty, vacant, void; unsubstantial; groundless, baseless, meaningless, pointless, worthless, ineffectual, mindlessnūllusno one, none, not any, nothing
The English word nullity itself goes back to Latin nūllus, through nūllitās.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
nullity
nihil (nothing): vanitas, inanitas (emptiness); or by the adjectives, irritus, vanus, nullus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for nullity?
- The usual Latin words for “nullity” are nihil, vānitās, inānitās; also irritus, vānus, nūllus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.