unencumbrance
English
Etymology
un- + encumbrance
Noun
unencumbrance (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being unencumbered.
- 2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 267:
- In their late thirties they’d decided not to have children, which at the time seemed like a sensible way to avoid unnecessary complications and heartbreak, and this decision had lent their lives a certain ease that he’d always appreciated, a sense of blissful unencumbrance.
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