Meanings
nounclanlessness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe state of being clanless.
To be disowned publicly is to be cut off from this, to be placed in a limbo of homelessness, clanlessness, to become nothing.
2004, Michael Hanne, Creativity in exile, page 23
Origin
From clanless + -ness. Piecewise doublet of plantlessness.
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clanlessness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clanlessness
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