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English
Etymology
homeless + -ness
Noun
homelessness (countable and uncountable, plural homelessnesses)
- The state of being homeless.
Derived terms
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 (ほーむれす, hōmuresu)
- Korean: 홈리스니스 (homniseuniseu)
- Luxembourgish: Wunnengslosegkeet
- 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
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