What is the difference between abandonedness and abandoned?
abandonedness | abandoned | Derived terms |
The state or quality of being abandoned.
* 2006 , Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story , page 45:
Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain.
No longer maintained by its former owners, residents
* (rfdate), Thomson:
Free from constraint; uninhibited.
* 1919 , :
(geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
(abandon)
Abandonedness is a derived term of abandoned.
As a noun abandonedness
is the state or quality of being abandoned.As a verb abandoned is
(abandon).As a adjective abandoned is
self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain {{defdate|first attested from 1350 to 1470}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =2| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}}.abandonedness
English
Noun
(-)- All mutterings and sly glances would be directed at Mam and her abandonedness , completely bypassing say, the maroon wool/polyester-mix topcoat that Mrs. Parsons might have bought at a whopping seventy-five percent off.
abandoned
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.