lone
adjective
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied.
loneness
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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
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
He had no taste for more cheerful images, and there are neither rural objects nor villagery in the scenes he describes, but only loneness and the solemnity of mountains.
From The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt
Why dost thou despise Ahania, to cast me from thy bright presence into the world of loneness?
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
When thy sad tones were revealing all the loneness o'er thee stealing, Did he not, with fellow-feeling, vow to leave thee nevermore?
From Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
