🏚️ Being abandoned 🙏 Spiritual emptiness

forsakenness

9.9

A feeling of being completely abandoned by God or a higher power

noun
/fɔrˈseɪkənəs/

: desamparo

Many people experience feelings of forsakenness during difficult times when they believe they are abandoned by God.

Examples

After losing his family, he felt a deep sense of forsakenness that left him spiritually empty.
Her poetry often reflects themes of forsakenness, exploring the pain of feeling cut off from divine love.
To this linguistic fissure, to this forsakenness, to the severance, please welcome Irene, Murray and Tuspato.

Synonyms

desolation

vsforsakenness

3 7.6

A feeling of deep sadness and emptiness after being left alone

involves complete abandonment by a higher power producing spiritual emptiness

lostness

vsforsakenness

1 7.5

A feeling of not knowing what to do next

emphasizes being left completely often by a higher power causing spiritual emptiness

forlornness

vsforsakenness

8.2

A feeling of deep sadness and loneliness when you are left alone

is a sense of total abandonment often by a higher power with spiritual emptiness

Antonyms

presence

116 9.9

A spirit or ghost that people feel is nearby

blessedness

1 7.9

A feeling of very great happiness often after prayer or quiet thought

How Spiritually Abandoned

desolation

3 7.6

forsakenness

9.9

abandonment

18 4.9

alienation

30 7.4

neglect

100 3.5

Surface Forms

forsakenness singular

forsakennesses plural

Morphology

forsakenness = forsaken (transparent) = forsaken + ness

Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'forsaken', yielding the state of being abandoned or deserted.

Etymology

Forsakenness comes from the verb forsake, which has the prefix for- meaning 'away', and the ending -ness that makes a state. A helpful way to remember the spiritual sense is to think of being 'forsaken' as being left 'away' even by God, so forsakenness means deep abandonment and spiritual emptiness.