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disadvantagedness

disadvantagedness noun: the quality of being disadvantaged.

Noun

disadvantagedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being disadvantaged.
    • I was forced to rethink my notion of disadvantagedness and to define disadvantage in more than economic terms.1993, Robert Donmoyer, Raylene Kos, At-risk Students: Portraits, Policies, Programs, and Practices, page 43

Origin of disadvantagedness

From disadvantaged + -ness.

Questions about disadvantagedness

What does disadvantagedness mean?
Disadvantagedness means the quality of being disadvantaged.
What part of speech is disadvantagedness?
Disadvantagedness is a noun.

Words near disadvantagedness in the dictionary

  1. disadvances
  2. disadvancing
  3. disadvantage
  4. disadvantageable
  5. disadvantaged
  6. disadvantagedness
  7. disadvantageous
  8. disadvantageously
  9. disadvantageousness
  10. disadvantages
  11. disadvantageth

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