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homelessness

homelessness

56 3.0
Not having a home and living on the streets or without shelter
  • noun
  • /ˈhoʊmlɛs.nəs/
translation icon : falta de vivienda
  • Charities are providing resources to help those experiencing homelessness find shelter.
  • experience homelessness
  • end homelessness
  • chronic homelessness

And he said to me that homelessness was his key issue.

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Examples

  • When she left the council, she became the mayor's policy adviser on homelessness.

    Academic text (2011)
  • But first I wanted to talk about youth homelessness in the UK.

  • And he said to me that homelessness was his key issue.

  • How can folks who are going through homelessness be helped?

  • Speaker, there is a homelessness crisis in this country.

  • We're talking about mass homelessness and people dying.

  • Homelessness is only increasing into the thousands...

  • Children experiencing homelessness are more likely to miss school than other students from families.

    Academic text (2011)
  • These are precisely the conditions that lead to homelessness, to housing insecurity.

  • Professional school counselors need to be aware of the deleterious effects associated with homelessness on student health and educational success.

    Academic text (2011)

Antonyms

658 1.0

Buildings where people live, like houses or flats

344 1.1

A building that gives temporary housing and protection for homeless people

How Rootless

vagabondage
  • Archaic
9.9
homelessness
56 3.0
transience
2 8.1
residency
28 4.9
settled
2.7

Surface Forms

homelessness singular

Morphology

homelessness = homeless (transparent) = home + less + ness

Standard nominalization of the adjective 'homeless' using '-ness' to indicate the state or condition.

Etymology

The word homelessness is built from home plus the ending -less, which means 'without', and -ness, which makes it 'a state'. So, homelessness means 'the state of being without a home', often living on the streets.