nullification

Meanings

Plural: nullifications

Noun

• the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress
• the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
• The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or no legal effect.
• The nullification crisis in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
• Surgical removal of genitals (and sometimes nipples) as a form of body modification; a person who has undergone this surgery is a nullo.

Synonyms

override