goneness

[ gawn-nis, gon- ]

/ ˈgɔn nɪs, ˈgɒn- /

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noun

a sinking sensation; exhaustion or faintness.

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Origin of goneness

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50; gone + -ness

It's extraordinary the goneness of things directly I'm away from you.
The Pastor's Wife|Elizabeth von Arnim
That goneness at his stomach, and the strange sensations up and down his spine, seemed incongruous in such valorous trappings.
The Man from the Bitter Roots|Caroline Lockhart
There was a lot inside those slim, pasteboard covered books beside rats gnawing in drains, and twilight and all-goneness.
Rough-Hewn|Dorothy Canfield
A kind o' sensation of goneness here, and a kind o' feelin' as it you might die suddint?
Tales of the Argonauts|Bret Harte

I wasn't in a temper anymore—and it left a dreadful sort of goneness, too.
Anne Of Green Gables|Lucy Maud Montgomery