lonelinesses

Noun

loneliness (usually uncountable, plural lonelinesses)

1. (usually) A feeling of depression resulting from being alone or from having no companions.
   • The loneliness resulting from the loss of loved ones, lack of purpose in life, and social discrimination is a real inner hell.

   Synonyms:

   ellingness, lonesomeness

2. (usually) The condition or state of being alone or having no companions.
   • Hitherto all things that have bin nam’d, were approv’d of God to be very good: lonelines is the first thing which Gods eye nam’d not good […]1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon, page 7

   Synonyms:

   aloneness, friendlessness, isolation, loneness, onehead, oneship, onlyhood, onliness, seclusion, solitariness

3. (usually) The state of being unfrequented or devoid of human activity (of a place or time).
   • […] as she sat at her bed-side, indulging melancholy reveries, which the loneliness of the hour assisted […]1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, London: G.G. & J. Robinson, Volume 4, Chapter 3, p. 50

   Synonyms:

   unfrequentedness

4. (obsolete, usually) A desire to be alone; disposition to solitude.
   • […] I see
     The mystery of your loneliness, and find
     Your salt tears’ head: now to all sense ’tis gross
     You love my son […]c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...