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CHILDLESSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does childlessness mean?
• CHILDLESSNESS (noun)
The noun CHILDLESSNESS has 1 sense:
1. the condition of being without offspring
Familiarity information: CHILDLESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The condition of being without offspring
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("childlessness" is a kind of...):
situation; state of affairs (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time)
Derivation:
childless (without offspring)
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