joblessness

English

Etymology

From jobless +‎ -ness.

Noun

joblessness (uncountable)

1. The state of being jobless or unemployed.
2. The phenomenon or level of unemployment in an economy.
   • 2009 July 11, Bob Herbert, “The Human Equation”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Even if it were working perfectly, the stimulus would not come close to stemming the cascade of joblessness unleashed by this megarecession.

Synonyms

• unemployment

Translations

unemployment

• Finnish: työttömyys (fi)
• Georgian: უმუშევრობა (umuševroba)
• German: Arbeitslosigkeit (de) f
• Italian: disoccupazione (it) f
• Polish: bezrobocie (pl) n