aloneness
5
6.5
- noun
- /əˈloʊn.nəs/
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soledad
- Then, you know, I think also many of us are afraid of aloneness because we get aloneness mixed up with loneliness.
But then I would smoke some cannabis and all of a sudden that aloneness becomes like amazing.
- But then I would smoke some cannabis and all of a sudden that aloneness becomes like amazing.
- They may literally and physically have people around them, but that existential aloneness can devastate a person.
- If that happens long enough, you crave aloneness.
- Then, you know, I think also many of us are afraid of aloneness because we get aloneness mixed up with loneliness.
- What my kid needs going back is they need to process that experience with an adult they feel safe with rather than being aloneness.
Examples
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She has embraced her aloneness as a time for reflection and growth.
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They may literally and physically have people around them, but that existential aloneness can devastate a person.
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Never before has my aloneness been made so clear.
Fiction book (1990) -
I do like that even in my aloneness, I am with you.
Blog text (28) -
It's a response to the sudden aloneness and loneliness that modern society is known for, unfortunately.
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There is a letting be in love that opens me to the mystery of aloneness in me and in the other.
Academic text (1990) -
More proof that as deep as her aloneness was, it wasn't deep enough.
Fiction book (1999) -
Her terrible aloneness is all she has left of Lil.
Fiction book (1994) -
She is still getting used to her own aloneness, her own fears.
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Spouses expressed grief as the loss of couple identity, uncertainty, and aloneness.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
172
3.7
A state of being alone and cut off from other people physically or emotionally
54
5.2
Being alone and feeling calm by choice
7
2.8
A liking for being alone without feeling sad
2
6.6
A situation where things are kept apart from others, for example work and personal life
2
9.4
Being separate from other places and having a narrow view of the world
1
6.7
A state of being separate from other people
1
6.6
A liking for spending time by yourself
1
7.9
Being alone and liking quiet time by oneself
1
8.2
A tendency to live alone and avoid social contact
1
7.8
To live alone away from other people by choice
1
7.7
Feeling separate from a group or community
Feeling not part of a group or community
Antonyms
How Solitary
Surface Forms
Morphology
aloneness = alone (transparent) = alone + ness
Standard nominalization of the adjective 'alone' with the productive suffix '-ness', meaning 'state or quality of being alone', which is directly inferable from the base.
Etymology
The word aloneness comes from alone, which was originally like all + one and meant 'all by oneself', plus the ending -ness, which makes a 'state'. So aloneness is the 'state of being alone', often a quiet, chosen time by yourself or a way someone prefers to live.