Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being without children.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being childless.
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- noun The state of being
childless .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the condition of being without offspring
Etymologies
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Examples
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According to the National Marriage Project, the incidence of childlessness is growing across the socioeconomic scale.
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Diamond's book will help scare bright and impressionable young people into childlessness, which is turning out to be a much worse problem for civilization than the deforestation that scares Diamond.
Easterbrook vs. Diamond Steve Sailer 2005
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Diamond's book will help scare bright and impressionable young people into childlessness, which is turning out to be a much worse problem for civilization than the deforestation that scares Diamond.
Archive 2005-01-30 Steve Sailer 2005
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Faced with the reality of being alone for the first time she talked openly and honestly with John about her feelings: her disgust with herself, her fear of failing at her job, her growing conviction that her childlessness was a punishment, and the frequent wish that she could simply die and put an end to her misery.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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Faced with the reality of being alone for the first time she talked openly and honestly with John about her feelings: her disgust with herself, her fear of failing at her job, her growing conviction that her childlessness was a punishment, and the frequent wish that she could simply die and put an end to her misery.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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I agree that she is wrong to associate feminism in total as culprit to 'childlessness'.
Oh, Rebecca, Rebecca: Forgive Your Mother Already! Anxious Black Woman 2008
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I found a number of books that focused on "childlessness" and being "childfree," but most of them focused only on women's experiences.
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I call it "childlessness" or one of -- one of the costs that is -- that are so high in this country.
CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: What is the Price of Motherhood? - February 18, 2001 2001
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Even more marked differences in childlessness by race and ethnicity are reflected among women who have never married.
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One of the things that goes hand-in-hand with childlessness is high levels of education, says D'Vera Cohn of Pew Research Center, who co-authored a report on childlessness last year.
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