The state or condition of being without bread or without means of subsistence.
Compound of breadless + -ness suffix, creating an abstract noun for the condition of lacking bread. Rare, philosophical term.
The word 'breadlessness' is almost Dickensian—it captures an entire social condition in a single abstract noun, the way Victorian writers captured poverty and despair.
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