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
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
Who walks thro his world in loneness lifts A soul that is sorrow-rife.
From Sea Poems by Cale Young Rice
"Oh, Bab," said wee Lucy, "I had such a loneness without you!"
From Jimmy, Lucy, and All by Sophie May
In the meantime there was the lonely, unwanted spinster opposite, with her immediate claim of nearness and loneness; and, as if to direct her thoughts into another channel, he said:
From Winding Paths by Gertrude Page
