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Abandonedness vs Abandonment - What's the difference?

abandonedness | abandonment |

As nouns the difference between abandonedness and abandonment

is that abandonedness is the state or quality of being abandoned while abandonment is the act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment .

abandonedness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state or quality of being abandoned.
  • * 2006 , Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story , page 45:
  • 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.

    abandonment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
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  • The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
  • Since he left her, she's suing him for divorce on grounds of abandonment .
  • An abandoned building or structure.
  • High-profile abandonments are harder to infiltrate for urban explorers due to their heightened security.
  • (legal) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
  • (legal) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
  • The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
  • A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
  • The self-surrender to an outside influence.
  • Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.
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  • Synonyms

    * (careless freedom) nonchalance

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