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lostness

lostness

1 7.5
A feeling of not knowing what to do next
  • noun
  • /ˈlɔstnəs/
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  • In moments of lostness, she often turned to her journal to search for clarity and direction.

So I really uncovered my own lostness to find my fondness.

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Examples

  • I see deep lostness in people that have too much.

  • After losing her job, she experienced a deep sense of lostness and uncertainty about her future.

  • And in that space of total emptiness and lostness, I was lost and something found me.

  • Otherwise you contribute to the lostness, if that's a word, the lostness of the world.

  • So I really uncovered my own lostness to find my fondness.

  • Yes, but there's enormous lostness and emotional need in the surge of interest in it.

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  • In these places of lostness, the artist goes and lowers ladders and guides for people to find ways to climb out.

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  • Perhaps today, since your lostness seems to be rooted in yesterday's losses, patriotic music would remind you of the joy and hope that is America.

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  • And I realized that your proportion for longing or your proportion for your lostness is only in reference to your relative feeling of need to fight.

  • The emotional lostness he felt during the move made it hard for him to adjust to his new surroundings.

Synonyms

disorientation
vslostness
18 6.7

Feeling confused about where you are, who you are, or what is real

is broader inner confusion and lack of direction rather than only spatial confusion
aimlessness
vslostness
1 7.0

A lack of clear purpose or direction

is a feeling of confusion or emotional lack of direction rather than only goals
purposelessness
vslostness
1 8.7

The feeling of having no clear goal or direction

is broader emotional confusion and lack of direction rather than simply no aim
confusedness
vslostness
6.5

A feeling of not thinking or acting clearly

is a general feeling of lacking direction or purpose rather than only unclear thinking

Antonyms

1.0

The way something moves or points

certainty
  • Literature
202 3.4

A strong feeling that something is true or will happen

152 3.0

How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes

How Lost

bewilderment
12 4.8
lostness
1 7.5
confusion
389 1.8
uncertainty
296 4.0

Surface Forms

lostness singular
lostnesses plural

Morphology

lostness = lost (transparent) = lost + ness

Formed by the adjective 'lost' plus the noun-forming suffix '-ness', yielding the state of being lost; meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

Lostness comes from lost, related to the verb lose, which means 'not having' or 'unable to find', and the ending -ness, which means 'state'. So, lostness is the state of feeling lost, confused, or without direction.