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lonesomeness

lonesomeness noun: the state of being lonesome.

Noun

lonesomeness (countable and uncountable, plural lonesomenesses)

  1. The state of being lonesome.
    • Wake up, by-and-by, and look to see what done it, and maybe see a steamboat, coughing along up stream, so far off towards the other side you couldn't tell nothing about her only whether she was stern-wheel or side-wheel; then for about an hour there wouldn't be nothing to hear nor nothing to...1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, pages 169–170

Synonyms of lonesomeness

All synonyms of lonesomeness

Forms of lonesomeness

plurallonesomenesses

Origin of lonesomeness

From lonesome + -ness.

Questions about lonesomeness

What does lonesomeness mean?
Lonesomeness means the state of being lonesome.
What part of speech is lonesomeness?
Lonesomeness is a noun.
What is the plural of lonesomeness?
The plural of lonesomeness is lonesomenesses.

Words near lonesomeness in the dictionary

  1. loneroid
  2. loners
  3. lones it
  4. lonesome
  5. lonesomely
  6. lonesomeness
  7. lonesomenesses
  8. lonesomer
  9. lonesomes
  10. lonesomest
  11. Lonestar State

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