singlehood

[ sing-guhl-hood ]

noun

the status of being unmarried.

Origin of singlehood

¹

First recorded in 1830–40; single + -hood

Words Nearby singlehood

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

How to use singlehood in a sentence

As I show in my book “Minimizing Marriage,” people have many different political or ethical reasons for preferring singlehood.
Single On Valentine’s Day And Happily So | LGBTQ-Editor | February 13, 2021 | No Straight News
Yet as with Latino immigration, the trend toward singlehood is unlikely to continue unabated.
The Myth of the Republican Party’s Inevitable Decline | Joel Kotkin | April 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

Browse