Definition of "childlessness" []

• The state of being childless. (noun)

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• "According to the National Marriage Project, the incidence of childlessness is growing across the socioeconomic scale."
• "Diamond's book will help scare bright and impressionable young people into childlessness, which is turning out to be a much worse problem for civilization than the deforestation that scares Diamond."
• "Faced with the reality of being alone for the first time she talked openly and honestly with John about her feelings: her disgust with herself, her fear of failing at her job, her growing conviction that her childlessness was a punishment, and the frequent wish that she could simply die and put an end to her misery."