Goneness
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 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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