annulment








noun

  1. the act of annulling, especially the formal declaration that annuls a marriage.
  2. Psychoanalysis. a mental process by which unpleasant or painful ideas are abolished from the mind.

noun

  1. a formal invalidation, as of a marriage, judicial proceeding, etc
  2. the act of annulling
n.

late 15c., “act of reducing to nothing;” see annul + -ment. Meaning “act of declaring invalid” is recorded from 1864.

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