aloneness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English alonnesse; equivalent to alone + -ness.
Noun[edit]
aloneness (countable and uncountable, plural alonenesses)
- The state of being alone; solitude, isolation.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 425:
- Suddenly, [...] he saw all this as romantic — the last legionary, his aloneness, the lost cause really lost — and instinctively he pulled in his paunch, stroked down his hair to cover the naked part of the scalp, and wiped the sweat off his cheeks.
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the state of being alone
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