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
"Well, you confessed to a fearful sense of goneness yourself."
From As Seen By Me by Lilian Bell
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.
From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London
It's extraordinary the goneness of things directly I'm away from you.
From The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim
Inside of a fortni't he was a gone goose, which wa'n't surprising—every other man being in the same fix—but 'TWAS surprising to see her helping the goneness along.
From Cape Cod Stories by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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