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State of having no fixed abode
Answer for the clue "State of having no fixed abode ", 12 letters:
homelessness
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Word definitions for homelessness in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Homelessness is the condition of people without a permanent dwelling , like a house or apartment . People who are homeless are most often unable to acquire and maintain regular, safe, secure and adequate housing . The legal definition of homeless varies ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814, from homeless + -ness .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being homeless.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
homelessness \homelessness\ n. the state or condition of having no home, especially of living in the streets.
Usage examples of homelessness.
The host asked me a bunch of questions on homelessness, the environment, and all the other issues people purport to Care about.
Real solutions to the homelessness problem can only be found by understanding its root causes, most of which are tied to a lack of personal responsibility and a generation-long decline in respect for the traditional American values of hard work, self-reliance, and respect for the law.
I wrote pointedly about how I am tired of hearing about how the problems of homelessness, drugs, AIDS, and the economy are the fault of the middle class.
But really, Rain asked herself, were things any better in her time, when homelessness and child abuse had reached all-time high proportions, when children of third-world countries starved to death, and abortion far exceeded the million mark each year?
The feeling of numb, nameless terror, rootless desolation, the intolerable sick anguish of homelessness, insecurity, and homesickness, against which he had fought since coming to Paris, and which he had been ashamed and afraid to admit, was now instantly banished.
Frenchmen, the strange and alien life of this magic city which was so seductive but so unalterably foreign to all that he had ever known--all this had now begun to weigh inexplicably upon a troubled spirit, to revive again the old feelings of naked homelessness, to stir in him the nameless sense of shame and guilt which an American feels at a life of indolence and pleasure, which is part of the very chemistry of his blood, and which he can never root out of him.