pennilessness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state or quality of being penniless. uncountable
  2. The state or quality of being penniless.; Synonym of destitution (“extreme poverty”). uncountable
    — I was thinking earlier that to know this city you must first become penniless, because pennilessness (real pennilessness, I mean not having $2 for the subway) forces you to walk everywhere and you see the city best on foot.

词源

Etymology tree
English penniless
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English pennilessness
From penniless + -ness.
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