aloneness

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aloneness

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From Middle English alonnesse; equivalent to alone + -ness.

noun alonenesses

  1. countable, uncountable The state of being alone; solitude, isolation. Suddenly, [...] he saw all this as romantic — the last legionary, his aloneness, the lost cause really lost — and instinctively he pulled in his paunch, stroked down his hair to cover the naked part of the scalp, and wiped the sweat off his cheeks.

    Similar: oneship, seclusion, aloneness, isolation, loneliness, loneness, onehead, onlyhood, onliness, solitariness, solitude · Opposite: togetherness

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noun the state of being alone

DeutschAlleinsein
Italianosolitudine
Românăsingurătate

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@misc{aloneness_2026,
  title = {aloneness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/aloneness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}