Meanings
comparative more possessionless · superlative most possessionless
- Without possessions.
A multi-millionaire rock star sings about a possessionless world […]
2001, Stephen Brown, Imagining Marketing: Art, Aesthetics and the Avant-Garde, →ISBN, page 42 more examples
This is, of course, only one of the many instances in which the interests of the possessionless sex and the possessionless class tend to coincide.
1915, Katherine Susan Anthony, Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia, page 148Similarly, the naked, possessionless saints who observe complete vows of the […]
1981, Jamnalal Jain, transl., Dharma Ke Dasha Lakshana: Ten Characteristics of Religion, translation of original by Hukamacanda Bhārilla, page 23
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Englishpossession
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishpossessionless
From possession + -less.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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