emptyhandedness

noun6

1. •
   The state of having nothing in one's hands.

   • Mr. Basehart offers it again, "Here, cousin," and dances away again, leaving Bolingbroke accused by his own emptyhandedness. — 1962
2. •
   Lack of a weapon; the state of being unarmed.
3. •
   The lack of something one sought to acquire.

   • Talk with those here who vainly seek work, who suffer daily the humiliation of emptyhandedness. — 1939
4. •
   Failure to accomplish a task or mission.

   • And the clanging call of the general alarm rasped you to battle stations, night and day, from sleep and from meals, always with the same emptyhandedness of failure in the end. — 2014
5. •
   Poverty or lack of possessions and resources.
6. •
   Lack of anything to offer

   • Oh, the beauty and heavenliness of a home where the empty-handed guest is not the less but the more welcome for his emptyhandedness! — 1896