Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being single or alone; seclusion; solitariness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Solitude; seclusion.
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- noun The state of being
alone ;loneliness ,solitariness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It’s more aggressive in nature and the drums rock out a lot more, yet the loneness is still there.
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Something reminded me of this recently when I read Tao Lin's passages from a recent book and could see how transparent and innocent and unaffected and mad the voice was — it's not that he's a lousy writer at all but the loneness of the composition and the ambition of the project that created it.
Hoss Men (divided) 2010
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Out of the loneness came a longing, out of the longing came a vision, Out of the dream there came a planning, out of the plan there came decision: Jordan's hand was lifted and the Ship was born.
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Good then that each gets some of that one on one with an adult but bad that the adult doesn't get that moment of loneness we all need.
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And in this new loneness of his that had been selected for what greatness he might achieve, beauty must be relative or, itself a harmony, it would make only a discord.
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He had become too proud of walking singular, of his oneness, his loneness.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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He had become too proud of walking singular, of his oneness, his loneness.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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Silence everywhere and that precious feeling of loneness.
The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981
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Out of the loneness came a longing, out of the longing came a vision, Out of the dream there came a planning, out of the plan there came decision: Jordan's hand was lifted and the Ship was born.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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In keeping with the whole sad story seemed the gloom of the forest, the loneness of the marsh, and the surge of the waves upon the desolate shore.
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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