NULLIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nullification mean? 

• NULLIFICATION (noun)
  The noun NULLIFICATION has 2 senses:

1. the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress

2. the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something

  Familiarity information: NULLIFICATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NULLIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("nullification" is a kind of...):

states' rights (a doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states)

Derivation:

nullify (declare invalid)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

nullification; override

Hypernyms ("nullification" is a kind of...):

change of state (the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nullification"):

cancellation (the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement)

vitiation (nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null)

counteraction; neutralisation; neutralization (action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action)

neutralisation; neutralization (action intended to keep a country politically neutral or exclude it from a possible war)

Derivation:

nullify (make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of)

nullify (declare invalid)