Word.ws English Dictionary

lornness

lornness noun: the quality of being lorn.

Noun

lornness (countable and uncountable, plural lornnesses)

  1. The quality of being lorn.
    • The joys and sorrows, the loves and the lornnesses of young heiresses have furnished themes to novel-writers ever since heiresses or novelists have existed.1872, The Spectator, volume 45, page 563

Forms of lornness

plurallornnesses

Origin of lornness

From lorn + -ness.

Questions about lornness

What does lornness mean?
Lornness means the quality of being lorn.
What part of speech is lornness?
Lornness is a noun.
What is the plural of lornness?
The plural of lornness is lornnesses.

Words near lornness in the dictionary

  1. Lorne sausages
  2. lorner
  3. Lornes
  4. lornest
  5. lornly
  6. lornness
  7. lornnesses
  8. lornoxicam
  9. Lorono
  10. Loronos
  11. loroxanthin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lornness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lornness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lornness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.