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Lonesomeness   Listen
noun
lonesomeness  n.  
1.
A disposition toward being alone.
Synonyms: aloneness, loneliness, solitude.
2.
The condition of being alone; the feeling of sadness resulting from being alone.





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"Lonesomeness" Quotes from Famous Books



... had supposed that Nellie would accompany her brother to Chicago. He did not look at either of the two for a time. He had been anticipating a period of lonesomeness and this unexpected news came like a bright shaft ...
— The Coming of the Law • Charles Alden Seltzer
... moment later I was in the Chapel, with the door locked behind me, and all about me the utter dree silence of the place, with just the faint showings of the outlines of the stained, leaded windows, making the darkness and lonesomeness ...
— Carnacki, The Ghost Finder • William Hope Hodgson
... distances and the lonesomeness, it was the pleasant habit of candidates to make their electioneering tours together. In seeking reelection in 1838, Lincoln was accompanied by Mr. Ewing. They stopped at one country house about dark, when the good wife was going a-milking, while her husband was still a-field. Intent on securing ...
— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams
... arrested his attention. Stupid and slow though he was, he divined that Mamie's thin, white cheeks and trembling hands were not caused by lonesomeness. He stared at her intently, till the blood gushed into her face. And then and there he ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... dropping; the thick growths far up waver in the breathless air as if something were moving sinuously through them. And always the odor of humid decomposition. Farther on, the road looks wilder, sloping between black rocks, through strange vaultings of foliage and night-black shadows. Its lonesomeness oppresses; one returns without regret, by rusting gate-ways and tottering walls, back to the old West Indian ...
— Two Years in the French West Indies • Lafcadio Hearn


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