solitudinousness

Noun

solitudinousness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being solitudinous (characterized by solitude).
   • Happily numbered among the pioneer missions of Catholicity in Pennsylvania after having devotedly cared for farmers, boatmen, furnace workers and patriots under the guidance of the Order and Secular priests, Haycock Run has all the genuine marks of antiquity upon it, and the impress of ages reigns...1933, Leo Gregory Fink, Old Jesuit Trails Penn's Forest, New York, N.Y.: The Paulist Press, page 156
   • The assumption that valuable relationships must be marital or amorous devalues friendships and other caring relationships, as recent manifestos by urban tribalists, quirkyalones, polyamorists, and asexuals have insisted. Amatonormativity prompts the sacrifice of other relationships to romantic love...2012, Elizabeth Brake, Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 89