landlessness

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noun

The state or condition of being landless.

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Meanings

nounlandlessness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe state or condition of being landless.

    But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God — so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 9”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Origin

From landless + -ness.

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Translations

Polish bezrolność
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Cite this entry
APA

landlessness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/landlessness

MLA

“landlessness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/landlessness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “landlessness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/landlessness.

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