Words ending with -less are adjectives. To make them nouns there's the suffix -ness.
So, "womanlessness" is a noun. Whether is fits the concept of "безбабье" and will be understood by the natives the way you see it, is quite another story, sorry :)
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Words ending with -less are adjectives. To make them nouns there's the suffix -ness.
Thanks, mate! I''m in the process of having it solved by the guys from ELL.
When Jonah and Sam speak with the talk show hostess, Dr Marcia Fieldstone (Caroline Aaron), it comes out that Sam is still having trouble sleeping at night, so Fieldstone refers to him as 'Sleepless in Seattle' rather than calling him by name.
Таки существует - артикль "the":
George Gordon ByronSun of the Sleepless! melancholy star!
Whose tearful beam glows tremulously far,
That show’st the darkness thou canst not dispel,
How like art thou to Joy remembered well!
So gleams the past, the light of other days,
Which shines but warms not with its powerless rays:
A night-beam Sorrow watcheth to behold,
Distinct, but distant – clear – but, oh, how cold!
ну как бы это есть:
Может, но не в 'бессонницу'.
С любыми - для обозначения всей группы лиц: the homeless, the jobless, the merciless,...
Есть там и такое переосмысление миллениалами:
Словарь современного молодежного жаргона: более ...
Михаил Грачев · 2006
... этикетка — « преподавательница этики » , руслан — « учитель русского языка » , бедуин — « неудачник » , черчиль — « учитель черчения » . ( Никитина , 2005 )
БЕЗБАБЬЕ , - я , ср . "безденежье"
Точнее - в 1925 в сов лит журнале 'Красная новь' (роман Фёдора Гладкова "Цемент"):
Но написано было в 1922-24, конечно.Подошел к ограде, прислонился грудью к переплетам (разве мало солдат подходили к ней, голодные от безбабья?). И тут необычно, украдкой, строго позвал ее:
— Даша, не скачи кошкой — сиди. Вести от Глеба. Гляди — упала бумажка. Ночью вползу — не пужайся.
Since the Layoffs: A Novel - Page 88
Iain Levison · 2003
I thought she was pretty then, but now after months of womanlessness, I think she is positively beautiful. I wonder if it's possible for a fairly drunk guy watching ESPN highlights to make a positive impression. I doubt it. She keeps looking at ...
Riders in the Night - Page 119
Harry Harrison Kroll · 1965
... kind that may have been the original house but now used for a kitchen. Bushy trees were about and the usual paling fence and awry gate, slung shut by old plow-points hung to a trace chain. There seemed an air of womanlessness here.
sʌn ɒv ðə ˈsliːpləs ˈmeləŋkɒli stɑːr
Так уже ж:
Упрямые/Упрямцы были брошены..The stubborn were cast into a pit, where they were crawled over by snakes, scorpions, toads and the like. Any pit in Egypt or elsewhere.
)) что бы это ни значило.)