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English
Etymology
From possessionless + -ness.
Pronunciation
Noun
possessionlessness (uncountable)
- The state or condition of having no possessions.
1992, Francesca Polletta, “Politicizing Childhood: The 1980 Zurich Burns Movement”, in Social Text, number 33, page 95:Their rebellion . . . translated their dispossession into the free possessionlessness of childhood.
1996, Gordon Leff, “Review of Olivi's Peaceable Kingdom. A Reading of the Apocalypse Commentary by David Burr”, in The English Historical Review, volume 111, number 442, page 682:Olivi in his commentary on the Apocalypse sanctified Francisan poverty, in the extreme form of absolute penury as well as possessionlessness attributed by the Franciscan Spirituals to St. Francis.
1996, Mavis Fenn, “Two Notions of Poverty in the Pāli Canon,”, in Journal of Buddhist Ethics, volume 3, page 113:More appropriate here is a definition of poverty as "possessionlessness," an understanding conveyed by the Pāli term akiñcana ("without anything," "lacking possessions").
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.