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wealthlessness

wealthlessness noun: the state of being wealthless.

Noun

wealthlessness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being wealthless.
    • In the Gaul of the early sixth century, to reassure monks that they could be bishops meant persuading them that the wealth of the church had come to stay. It was there. The only issue was how to deal with it. [Julianus] Pomerius went out of his way to prove that involvement with the wealth of the...2012, Peter Brown, Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

Origin of wealthlessness

From wealthless + -ness.

Questions about wealthlessness

What does wealthlessness mean?
Wealthlessness means the state of being wealthless.
What part of speech is wealthlessness?
Wealthlessness is a noun.

Words near wealthlessness in the dictionary

  1. wealthies
  2. wealthiest
  3. wealthily
  4. wealthiness
  5. wealthless
  6. wealthlessness
  7. wealthmaker
  8. wealthmakers
  9. wealthmaking
  10. wealthmonger
  11. wealthmongers

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