goneness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of goneness
Example Sentences
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Why are you so happy about it now when you are so sad in his shirt, in his office, in his goneness?
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
"But don't you feel an awful goneness after a breakfast like that?"
From Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Smith, Harriet L.
"Well, you confessed to a fearful sense of goneness yourself."
From As Seen By Me by Bell, Lilian
"Say you feel all of a goneness," spoke up Columbia.
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
“I have a goneness here that nothing except a hot breakfast will satisfy.”
From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Patchin, Frank Gee
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