Lonesomeness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state of being lonesome. countable, uncountable
"Wake up, by-and-by, and look to see what done it, and maybe see a steamboat, coughing along up stream, so far off towards the other side you couldn't tell nothing about her only whether she was stern-wheel or side-wheel; then for about an hour there wouldn't be nothing to hear nor nothing to see—just solid lonesomeness."
- 2 a disposition toward being alone wordnet
Example
More examples"The sun was rising in all its splendid beauty; but the light only served to show the boy his own lonesomeness and desolation, as he sat, with bleeding feet and covered with dust, upon a door-step."
Etymology
From lonesome + -ness.
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