landlessness means the state or condition of being landless. It carries an Arena rating of 1129, earned across 15 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, landlessness ranks #4,082 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #5,908 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #6,828 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #8,121 of 17,131 for Scariest Words.
Why “landlessness” is a great word
The state or condition of having no land, especially as a permanent or systemic social status. From landless (from Old English landlēas, from land (“land”) + -lēas (“-less”)) + -ness (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a state or condition). Unlike homelessness, which denotes the acute lack of a dwelling, or dispossession, which emphasizes the violent act of being torn from one's soil, landlessness is the sustained, quiet reality of existing without a claim to the earth itself. It is the inherited horizon of the tenant farmer, the mapped exclusion of the displaced people, and the futureless title of the generation with no deed to its own past—the fundamental rootlessness from which all other forms of exile grow.
Etymology
From landless + -ness.
noun
- The state or condition of being landless.
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