different between nullification vs undoing

English

Etymology

null +? -ification

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?l?f??ke???n/

  Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

nullification (countable and uncountable, plural nullifications)

1. The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect.
2. removal (clarification of this definition is needed)

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ny.li.fi.ka.sj??/

Noun

nullification f (plural nullifications)

1. nullification

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?du???/

Etymology 1

From Middle English undoinge, undoynge, ondoynge; equivalent to undo +? -ing.

Noun

undoing (plural undoings)

1. The act of loosening or unfastening
2. Ruin; defeat, (also) that which causes defeat or ruin.

   His fatal flaw was his undoing. In a sense he defeated himself.

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5:

     So far as the ape was concerned, Sabor reasoned correctly. The little fellow crouched trembling just an instant, but that instant was quite long enough to prove his undoing.
3. Annulment; reversal

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English undoynge, undoand, from Old English und?nde (“undoing”), from Proto-Germanic *andad?ndz, present participle of *andad?n? (“to undo”). Cognate with Dutch ontdoend (“undoing”).

Verb

undoing

1. present participle of undo

Anagrams

• ounding