mootness
/ˈmutnəs/
noun
- The state of being irrelevant or no longer having any practical importance, especially in a legal case or argument.
- Lawyers argued that the issue had reached mootness and no longer needed a decision.
- The judge dismissed the case because of mootness after the law was changed.
- The debate about the old policy had a sense of mootness since it was already replaced.
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