possessionlessness

possessionless +‎ -ness

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈzɛʃn̩.ləs.nəs/

possessionlessness (uncountable)

1. The state or condition of having no possessions.
   • 1992, Francesca Polletta, "Politicizing Childhood: The 1980 Zurich Burns Movement," Social Text, no. 33, p. 95:

     Their rebellion . . . translated their dispossession into the free possessionlessness of childhood.

   • 1996, Gordon Leff, "Review of Olivi's Peaceable Kingdom. A Reading of the Apocalypse Commentary by David Burr," The English Historical Review, vol. 111, no. 442, p. 682:

     Olivi in his commentary on the Apocalypse sanctified Francisan poverty, in the extreme form of absolute penury as well as possessionlessness attributed by the Franciscan Spirituals to St. Francis.

   • 1996, Mavis Fenn, "Two Notions of Poverty in the Pāli Canon," Journal of Buddhist Ethics, vol. 3, p. 113:

     More appropriate here is a definition of poverty as "possessionlessness," an understanding conveyed by the Pāli term akiñcana ("without anything," "lacking possessions").

• possessionless

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.