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landlessness

landlessness noun: the state or condition of being landless.

Noun

landlessness (uncountable)

  1. The 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 of landlessness

From landless + -ness.

Questions about landlessness

What does landlessness mean?
Landlessness means the state or condition of being landless.
What part of speech is landlessness?
Landlessness is a noun.

Words near landlessness in the dictionary

  1. landladyship
  2. landleaper
  3. landleapers
  4. Landler
  5. landless
  6. landlessness
  7. landlike
  8. landline
  9. landlines
  10. landliving
  11. landlock

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