nullity

The whole scene breathed boredom, the man embarrassed by the consciousness of his nullity, the woman tired of her dismal visitor.

That renunciation was therefore a nullity; and no swearing, no signing, no sealing, could turn that nullity into a reality.

I do not understand that my associates consider it a nullity—certainly they could not have so considered it when it was passed.

Hitherto he was lost in the world of Appearance; but when he thinks of it, he separates himself from it, and sees its nullity.

A divorce case—or, rather, I think a nullity case is what it would be called.