homelessness
/ˈhəʊm.ləs.nəs/
homelessness noun: the state of being homeless.
Noun
homelessness (countable and uncountable, plural homelessnesses)
- The state of being homeless.
- Houseless and Homeless. The estimate of the New York Housing Conference Secretary, Mr. Edward P. Doyle, that it will take half a billion dollars to overcome the present housing shortage, is probably not an exaggerated presentation of the plight New York is in in this respect. Furthermore, the...1920 June 26, Harvey's Weekly, volume 3, number 26, page 14
- The devastating effect of the violence is illustrated by the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that caused deaths, homelessness, despair, poverty, political instability, and economic stagnation in this country.2007, Gabriel Andrew Msoka, “General Conclusion”, in Basic Human Rights and the Humanitarian Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa: Ethical Reflections (Princeton Theological Monograph Series; 74), Eugene...
homelessness meaning in Urdu and Malay
homelessness in Urdu
- بےگھری
homelessness in Malay
- state of being homeless
- tunawisma
Examples of homelessness in a sentence
- And what do you do about homelessness in Los Angeles?
- Higher-level councils, swamped by chunky issues such as homelessness and children in care, are often happy to hand responsibilities down.
- A group of homeless residents sued the city, challenging the ordinances and contending that the local laws essentially criminalized homelessness.
Forms of homelessness
| plural | homelessnesses |
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Origin of homelessness
From homeless + -ness.
Words formed from homelessness
- antihomelessness
- existential homelessness
- political homelessness
Questions about homelessness
- What does homelessness mean?
- Homelessness means the state of being homeless.
- What is homelessness in Urdu?
- Homelessness in Urdu is بےگھری. See Homelessness meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is homelessness?
- Homelessness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce homelessness?
- Homelessness is pronounced /ˈhəʊm.ləs.nəs/.
- What is the plural of homelessness?
- The plural of homelessness is homelessnesses.
Words near homelessness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: homelessness (page history and authors); homelessness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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