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derelictness

  • a word derived from derelict.
    derelict
    adjective
    left or deserted, as by the owner or guardian; abandoned.

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The derelictness in attendance on some occasions was humiliating and even alarming.

From The United States of America, Part 1 by Edwin Erle Sparks