Goneness

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being gone, i.e. no longer present. countable, uncountable

    "It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust."

  2. 2
    A state of exhaustion or faintness, especially from hunger. US, countable, informal, uncountable

Example

More examples

"It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust."

Etymology

From gone + -ness.

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