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Featherlessness vs Fatherlessness - What's the difference?

featherlessness | fatherlessness |

As nouns the difference between featherlessness and fatherlessness

is that featherlessness is the state or condition of being featherless; lack of feathers while fatherlessness is the state or quality of being fatherless.

featherlessness

English

Noun

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  • The state or condition of being featherless; lack of feathers.

    • fatherlessness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being fatherless.
  • *{{quote-news, pagetitle=fatherlessness, year=2007, date=October 16, author=Bob Herbert, title=Tough, Sad and Smart, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Speaking about the epidemic of fatherlessness in black families, Mr. Cosby imagined a young fatherless child thinking: “Somewhere in my life a person called my father has not shown up, and I feel very sad about this because I don’t know if I’m ugly — I don’t know what the reason is.”}}
  • *{{quote-news, pagetitle=fatherlessness, year=2007, date=December 18, author=David Brooks, title=The Obama-Clinton Issue, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Obama did not respond to his fatherlessness or his racial predicament with anger and rage, but as questions for investigation, conversation and synthesis.}}
  • *{{quote-news, pagetitle=fatherlessness, year=2008, date=June 16, author=Julie Bosman, title=Obama Calls for More Responsibility From Black Fathers, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=His themes have also been sounded by the comedian Bill Cosby , who has stirred debate among black Americans by bluntly speaking about an epidemic of fatherlessness in African-American families while suggesting that some blacks use racism as a crutch to explain the lack of economic progress.}}