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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



... the 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
... who had tried to instruct his wife at home and celebrate the fact of her having reared a soldier for the army, he failed himself to stand the trial: he began to feel the pangs of longing and lonesomeness. The imminent parting with his son, to take place on the morrow, seemed to depress ...
— In Those Days - The Story of an Old Man • Jehudah Steinberg
... depends upon this machinery that one must always take it into consideration when reckoning the pleasures and even the comforts of life anywhere, and this is especially true in the country. We have such a lot of people about that our servants cannot sing the song of lonesomeness that makes dolor for most suburbanites. They are "churched" as often as they wish, and we pay city wages; but still it is not all clear sailing in this quarter of Polly's realm. I fancy that we get on better than ...
— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter
... had learned to like big cities. 'I'd always be miserable in a city. I'd die of lonesomeness. I like to be where I know every stack and tree, and where all the ground is friendly. I want to live and die here. Father Kelly says everybody's put into this world for something, and I know what I've got to do. I'm going to see that my little girl has a better chance than ever I had. ...
— My Antonia • Willa Cather
... then,—narrow water—courses which my horse followed in mid stream, and, more interesting yet, goatherds with their flocks, Mexicans all, who seemed to understand no English, but were picturesque enough to look at and a welcome break in the extreme lonesomeness of ...
— The Woman in the Alcove • Anna Katharine Green


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