Childlessness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being without children.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state of being childless.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state of being childless.
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  • noun. the condition of being without offspring
  • Word Usage
    "According to the National Marriage Project, the incidence of childlessness is growing across the socioeconomic scale."
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