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PENNILESSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pennilessness mean?
• PENNILESSNESS (noun)
The noun PENNILESSNESS has 1 sense:
1. a state of lacking money
Familiarity information: PENNILESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of lacking money
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
impecuniousness; pennilessness; penuriousness
Hypernyms ("pennilessness" is a kind of...):
impoverishment; poorness; poverty (the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions)
Derivation:
penniless (not having enough money to pay for necessities)
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