annulment

Meaning

Noun

• An act or instance of annulling.
• The state of having been annulled.
• An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract.
• A legal (notably judicial) declaration that a marriage is invalid; the procedure leading to it.
• Total destruction.

Related

Similar words

• abolition
• nullification (cognate)
• cancellation

Origin

• Recorded since the 15th century (sense destruction); from annul (from Middle English annullen, from Middle French annuller, from Latin annullare, from ad + nullus + verbal ending -are) + -ment (from Latin -mentum).