possessionless
English
Etymology
From possession + -less.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈzɛʃ.ən.ləs/
Adjective
possessionless (comparative more possessionless, superlative most possessionless)
- Without possessions.
- 1915, Katherine Susan Anthony, Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia, page 148:
- This is, of course, only one of the many instances in which the interests of the possessionless sex and the possessionless class tend to coincide.
- 1981, Jamnalal Jain (translator), Dharma Ke Dasha Lakshana: Ten Characteristics of Religion, translation of original by Hukamacanda Bhārilla, page 23:
- Similarly, the naked, possessionless saints who observe complete vows of the […]
- 2001, Stephen Brown, Imagining Marketing: Art, Aesthetics and the Avant-Garde, →ISBN, page 4:
- A multi-millionaire rock star sings about a possessionless world […]
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Derived terms
- possessionlessness
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.