childlessness

English

Etymology

From childless +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

childlessness (uncountable)

1. The state of being childless.

Related terms

• childless
• cousinless
• cousinlessness
• daughterless
• daughterlessness
• descendantless
• descendantlessness
• descendantness
• fatherless
• fatherlessness
• grandfatherless
• grandfatherlessness
• grandmotherless
• grandmotherlessness
• grandparentless
• grandparentlessness
• motherless
• motherlessness
• parentless
• parentlessness
• sonless
• sonlessness

Translations

state of being childless

• Belarusian: бяздзе́тнасць f (bjazdzjétnascʹ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 无后 (zh) (wúhòu)

• Danish: barnløshed (da) c
• Dutch: kinderloosheid (nl) f
• Finnish: lapsettomuus (fi)
• German: Kinderlosigkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: gyermektelenség (hu)
• Kazakh: баласыздық (balasyzdyq)
• Kyrgyz: баласыздык (ky) (balasızdık)
• Latvian: bezbērnotība f
• Lithuanian: bevaikystė f
• Macedonian: бездетност f (bezdetnost)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: barnløshet m or f

  Nynorsk: barnløyse f, barnlausheit f

• Old English: bearnlīest f
• Polish: bezdzietność (pl) f, bezpotomność (pl) f
• Russian: безде́тность (ru) f (bezdétnostʹ)
• Swahili: ugumba
• Swedish: barnlöshet (sv) c
• Turkish: çocuksuzluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: безді́тність (uk) f (bezdítnistʹ)