spinsterhood

English

Etymology

spinster +‎ -hood

Noun

spinsterhood (countable and uncountable, plural spinsterhoods)

The condition of being a spinster.
- 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 387:
  sheʼs long ago resigned herself to eternal spinsterhood, to a future without the joys of marriage and motherhood
The time during which one is a spinster.

Translations

condition of a spinster

Italian: zitelaggio, nubilato (it)
Spanish: solteronería

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