homelessness

English

Etymology

homeless +‎ -ness

Noun

homelessness (countable and uncountable, plural homelessnesses)

1. The state of being homeless.

Derived terms

• political homelessness

Translations

state of being homeless

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無む家いえ可か歸き／无家可か归 (zh) (wújiākěguī), 露ろ宿やど街頭がいとう／露ろ宿やど街まち头 (lùsù jiētóu)

• Danish: hjemløshed c
• Esperanto: senhejmeco
• Finnish: kodittomuus (fi), asunnottomuus (fi)
• French: itinérance (fr) f (Quebec), sans-abrisme (fr) m
• Georgian: უსახლკარობა (usaxlḳaroba), უბინაობა (ubinaoba), უპატრონობა (uṗaṭronoba) (for homeless children)
• German: Obdachlosigkeit (de) f, Wohnungslosigkeit f, Hauslosigkeit f (religion, philosophy), Heimatlosigkeit f
• Greek: αστεγία (el) f (astegía)
• Hungarian: hajléktalanság (hu)
• Ido: senhemeso (io)
• Japanese: ホームレス (ほーむれす, hōmuresu)
• Korean: 홈리스니스 (homniseuniseu)
• Luxembourgish: Wunnengslosegkeet
• Malay: tunawisma
• Maori: kāingakoretanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: heimløshet m or f, hjemløshet m or f, bostedsløshet m or f

  Nynorsk: heimløyse f

• Polish: bezdomność (pl) f
• Portuguese: desabrigo (pt) m
• Russian: бездо́мность (ru) f (bezdómnostʹ)
• Spanish: sinhogarismo (es) m, indigencia (es) f, sintechismo m, situación de calle f
• Swedish: hemlöshet (sv) c
• Turkish: evsizlik (tr)
• Welsh: digartrefedd (cy) m
• Yoruba: àìrílégbé