homelessness

English

Etymology

From homeless +‎ -ness.

Noun

homelessness (countable and uncountable, plural homelessnesses)

1. The state of being homeless.
   • 2007, Gabriel Andrew Msoka, “General Conclusion”, in Basic Human Rights and the Humanitarian Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa: Ethical Reflections (Princeton Theological Monograph Series; 74), Eugene, Or.: Pickwick Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 169:

     The devastating effect of the violence is illustrated by the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that caused deaths, homelessness, despair, poverty, political instability, and economic stagnation in this country.

Derived terms

• political homelessness
• existential homelessness

Translations

state of being homeless

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無家可歸／无家可归 (zh) (wújiākěguī), 露宿街頭／露宿街头 (lùsù jiētóu)

• Danish: hjemløshed c
• Esperanto: senhejmeco
• Finnish: kodittomuus (fi), asunnottomuus (fi)
• French: itinérance (fr) f (Quebec), sans-abrisme (fr) m
• Georgian: უსახლკარობა (usaxlḳaroba), უბინაობა (ubinaoba), უპატრონობა (uṗaṭronoba) (for homeless children)
• German: Obdachlosigkeit (de) f, Wohnungslosigkeit f, Hauslosigkeit f (religion, philosophy), Heimatlosigkeit f
• Greek: αστεγία (el) f (astegía)
• Hungarian: hajléktalanság (hu)
• Ido: senhemeso (io)
• Japanese: ホームレス (ja) (ほーむれす, hōmuresu)
• Korean: 홈리스니스 (homniseuniseu)
• Luxembourgish: Wunnengslosegkeet
• Macedonian: бездомништво n (bezdomništvo)
• Malay: tunawisma
• Maori: kāingakoretanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: heimløshet m or f, hjemløshet m or f, bostedsløshet m or f

  Nynorsk: heimløyse f

• Polish: bezdomność (pl) f
• Portuguese: desabrigo (pt) m
• Russian: бездо́мность (ru) f (bezdómnostʹ)
• Spanish: sinhogarismo (es) m, indigencia (es) f, sintechismo m, situación de calle f
• Swedish: hemlöshet (sv) c
• Turkish: evsizlik (tr)
• Welsh: digartrefedd (cy) m
• Yoruba: àìrílégbé