lonesomeness
- a word derived from lonesome.
Example Sentences
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That lonesomeness changes the tension and weight of the story’s silence.
From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026
“The song is really a culmination of the feelings I’ve felt while traveling alone, where if lonesomeness happened to linger it wasn’t accompanied with sadness but understanding.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2021
In such poems, to long for an individual serves to conjure a general lonesomeness.
From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2020
Sometimes on afternoons like this I found an excuse to get left behind by the others just to savor the lonesomeness.
From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2010
I thought I saw a mild lonesomeness cross the face of the Maginot Line.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
