Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A faint or sinking sensation; faintness: as, a feeling of goneness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Colloq. U. S. A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger.
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- noun US, informal A state of
exhaustion orfaintness , especially fromhunger .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And when they go away again, their goneness is that much more emphatic.
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SINKING SENSATIONS: -- Many women have a feeling of weakness or "goneness" at about eleven o'clock in the morning, and are led by it to the injurious practice of eating between meals.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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For a long time I could never rid myself of a sensation of 'goneness' when I read the figures indicating the distance to St. Petersburg.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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His very thraldom to the habit seemed an improbable, grotesque dream, which some morning would dissipate, but as a matter of experience each morning brought such a profound sinking and "goneness" that his will-power shrivelled like a paper barricade before the scorching intensity of his desire.
Without a Home Edward Payson Roe 1863
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The 'goneness' and other unpleasant sensations referred to the pit of the stomach may be much relieved by wearing a well-made spice-plaster over the stomach, or binding there a bag of gum camphor; or if these fail, an opium plaster will hardly fail to be of service.
The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother 1859
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Her throat was parched, a dull ache never ceased in her breast, and she was oppressed by a feeling of goneness.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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But ever -- and here the torment lay -- she was drawn back from these far-wanderings to her present trouble, with its parch in the throat, its ache in the breast, and its gnawing, vacant goneness.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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“And the rest of our lives will the moments accrue/when the shape of their goneness will flare up anew.”
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And when I have had a hard time with his goneness I have felt incredibly guilty that he wasn't more 'in harm's way.'
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And when they go away again, their goneness is that much more emphatic.
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