Oneliness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being one or single. obsolete, uncountable

    "If I may be allowed to use a word already forced by the poverty of our abstract language upon a well-known writer, I would say that the doctrine of unity contains the ideas both of oneliness, and of oneness."

Example

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"If I may be allowed to use a word already forced by the poverty of our abstract language upon a well-known writer, I would say that the doctrine of unity contains the ideas both of oneliness, and of oneness."

Etymology

From onely + -ness.

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