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- noun The state or sphere of those who are
single (unmarried or unattached).
Etymologies
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Examples
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For example, I've never read that singledom is theologically unacceptable.
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Nearly half 47% of UK single men attribute their long-term singledom to lack of confidence, 41% to shyness, 34% to fussiness and 31% to not being attractive enough.
Archive 2008-01-01 Thatsnews 2008
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Still, still, I find it a touch odd that there are women int he world who look to people they’ve seen interviewed for 10 minutes on TV – * interviewed* – and wonder if he’s available to marry … Are things that bad in singledom?!
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It is tempting to fall back on familiar patterns as the first holidays and milestones of your new year of "singledom" come up.
Sari Eckler Cooper: Surviving Divorce: 7 Dos and Don'ts; an Addendum Sari Eckler Cooper 2011
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It is tempting to fall back on familiar patterns as the first holidays and milestones of your new year of "singledom" come up.
Sari Eckler Cooper: Surviving Divorce: 7 Dos and Don'ts; an Addendum Sari Eckler Cooper 2011
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As if it wasn’t enough that I was validating my own seclusion from my friends, having some cute young thing validate your singledom was a little bit more than I could handle.
moschikat Diary Entry moschikat 2004
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It was like I just woke up one day and I was a single baby boomer staring down the barrel of "singledom".
EzineArticles 2010
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Was my state of perpetual motion a cover-up for an inability to sit with my new reality, my return to singledom?
Beth Jones: Regression, or How Divorce Turned Me into a (Giddy) Drinking, Smoking, Post-Adolescent Beth Jones 2011
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Was my state of perpetual motion a cover-up for an inability to sit with my new reality, my return to singledom?
Beth Jones: Regression, or How Divorce Turned Me into a (Giddy) Drinking, Smoking, Post-Adolescent Beth Jones 2011
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Once your friends and family start getting married and having babies, the nightmare that is chronic singledom takes on an even more fevered pitch.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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