HOMELESSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("homelessness" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "homelessness"):

vagrancy (the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood)

Derivation:

homeless (physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security)