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childlessness
child C0291300 (chīld)n. pl. chil·dren (chĭl′drən) 1. a. A person between birth and puberty.b. A person who has not attained maturity or the age of legal majority.2. a. An unborn infant; a fetus.b. An infant; a baby.3. One who is childish or immature.4. A son or daughter; an offspring.5. A member of a tribe; descendant: children of Abraham.6. a. An individual regarded as strongly affected by another or by a specified time, place, or circumstance: a child of nature; a child of the Sixties.b. A product or result of something specified: "Times Square is a child of the 20th century" (Richard F. Shepard).Idiom: with child Pregnant.
[Middle English, from Old English cild.]
child′less adj.child′less·ness n.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | childlessness - the condition of being without offspringsituation, state of affairs - the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt |
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