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annulment
1. A formal and legal termination of a relationship or a judicial proceeding, etc.; especially, the formal declaration that annuls a marriage.
2. A court procedure that dissolves a marriage and treats it as if it never happened.
2. A court procedure that dissolves a marriage and treats it as if it never happened.
The most common reason for anyone to want an annulment instead of a divorce is for religious reasons.
Annulments are usually rare since the advent of "no-fault divorce" but it may be obtained in most states in America for one of the following reasons: misrepresentation, concealment; for example, of an addiction or criminal record, and the refusal to consummate the marriage.
3. A mental process or mechanism by which unpleasant or painful ideas are abolished from the mind of a psychiatric patient.Such patients render as nonexistent, certain specific events or ideas which have been painful or disagreeable to them.
In annulment, painful experiences are said to be shifted into daydreams; while in repression, the painful experiences may be eliminated from consciousness and pushed into the unconscious, after which they may reappear in dreams or as symptoms.