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goneness

goneness noun: the state or quality of being gone, i.e. no longer present.

Noun

goneness (countable and uncountable, plural gonenesses)

  1. The state or quality of being gone, i.e. no longer present.
    • It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust.1999, Vivian Patraka, Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust
  2. (US, informal) A state of exhaustion or faintness, especially from hunger.

Forms of goneness

pluralgonenesses

Origin of goneness

From gone + -ness.

Questions about goneness

What does goneness mean?
Goneness means the state or quality of being gone, i.e. no longer present.
What part of speech is goneness?
Goneness is a noun.
What is the plural of goneness?
The plural of goneness is gonenesses.

Words near goneness in the dictionary

  1. gone wrong
  2. gone-zo
  3. goneburger
  4. gonef
  5. gonefs
  6. goneness
  7. gonenesses
  8. goneoclinic
  9. goneplacid
  10. goneplacids
  11. goner

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