childlessness

English

Etymology

childless +‎ -ness

Noun

childlessness (uncountable)

1. The state of being childless.

Related terms

Related terms

• child
• childless
• daughterless
• daughterlessness
• descendant
• descendantness
• fatherless

• fatherlessness
• grandfather
• grandfatherless
• grandmother
• grandmotherless
• grandparentless
• grandparentlessness

• motherless
• motherlessness
• parentless
• parentlessness
• sonless
• sonlessness

Translations

the state of being childless

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 无后 (zh)

• Danish: barnløshed (da) c
• Dutch: kinderloosheid (nl) f
• Finnish: lapsettomuus (fi)
• German: Kinderlosigkeit f
• Kazakh: баласыздық (balasızdıq)
• Kyrgyz: баласыздык (ky) (balasızdık)

• Lithuanian: bevaikystė f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: barnløshet m, f

  Nynorsk: barnløyse f, barnlausheit f

• Russian: безде́тность (ru) f (bezdétnostʹ)
• Turkish: çocuksuzluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: безді́тність (uk) f (bezdítnistʹ)