English
fatherlessness
From fatherless + -ness.
A compound of fatherless + -ness
Proto-Germanic *fadērlausaz
Old English fæderlēas
Middle English faderles ‘lacking a living father’
English fatherless
Today it means
noun The state or quality of being fatherless (not having a (living) father).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fatherlessness