loneness
- a word derived from lone.
Example Sentences
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Radtke conveys loneliness as a societal problem but also shows the extreme personal toll it can have on someone and how, the deeper into loneness you fall, the harder it is to come out.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2021
Why dost thou despise Ahania, to cast me from thy bright presence into the world of loneness?
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Then they were alone, and it was a loneness such as an eagle might feel when it held itself poised high in the curve of blue.
From The Lost Prince by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
"Oh, Bab," said wee Lucy, "I had such a loneness without you!"
From Jimmy, Lucy, and All by May, Sophie
The one human thing, with the goblins before me— Alone—in a loneness so ghastly—Alone!
From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education
