different between possessionlessness vs possessionless
possessionlessness
English
Etymology
possessionless +? -ness
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??z??n?.l?s.n?s/
Noun
possessionlessness (uncountable)
- The state or condition of having no possessions.
- 1992, Francesca Polletta, "Politicizing Childhood: The 1980 Zurich Burns Movement," Social Text, no. 33, p. 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," The English Historical Review, vol. 111, no. 442, p. 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 P?li Canon," Journal of Buddhist Ethics, vol. 3, p. 113:
- More appropriate here is a definition of poverty as "possessionlessness," an understanding conveyed by the P?li term akiƱcana ("without anything," "lacking possessions").
- 1992, Francesca Polletta, "Politicizing Childhood: The 1980 Zurich Burns Movement," Social Text, no. 33, p. 95:
Related terms
- possessionless
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
possessionlessness From the web:
- what does possessionlessnesses meaning
- what does possessionlessnesses
possessionless
English
Etymology
From possession +? -less.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??z??.?n.l?s/
Adjective
possessionless (comparative more possessionless, superlative most possessionless)
- Without possessions.
Derived terms
- possessionlessness
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
possessionless From the web:
- what does possessionlessnesses meaning
- what does possessionlessnesses
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- possessionlessness vs possessionless
- fruit vs anemochorous
- spore vs anemochorous
- seed vs anemochorous
- botany vs anemochorous
- postmortem vs antemortem
- perimortem vs antemortem
- topfreeness vs topfree
- topfree vs topfreedom
- datacasting vs datacast
- labral vs labrum
- multiphonic vs multiphonics
- mubarak vs barack
- sisterfuck vs sisterfucker
- sisterfucking vs sisterfucker
- brotherfucker vs sisterfucker
- brotherfucker vs fatherfucker
- sisterfucker vs fatherfucker
- pseudohistorical vs pseudohistory
- pseudohistorian vs pseudohistory