goneness

9.3

A feeling that a person or thing is not here anymore

noun
/ˈɡoʊnəs/

: ausencia

After he moved away, I often felt the goneness of his laughter in our empty meetings.

Examples

I wouldn't be one of those admirable souls who, squarely acknowledging the goneness of a prior life, starts over on a new track.

Fiction book (1994)
The goneness of my childhood friends makes family gatherings feel incomplete.
The goneness of summer is evident as the leaves begin to fall and the air turns chilly.

Synonyms

absence

vsgoneness

186 1.3

A time when someone is away from a place

focuses on the sense and feeling of something not being in a place

disappearance

vsgoneness

65 3.7

A person or thing not seen where it was before

describes the ongoing state and feeling after something is not there

nonexistence

vsgoneness

5 7.0

A state in which something is not there

describes a state of not being in a place while still existing somehow

nonpresence

vsgoneness

8.9

Not being in a place or at an event

includes also a feeling of loss or that something is not there

Antonyms

presence

951 2.1

Being in a particular place or situation

existence

838 2.8

The state of being real or alive

How Absent

goneness

9.3

presence

951 2.1

Surface Forms

goneness singular

gonenesses plural

Morphology

goneness = gone (transparent) = gone + ness

The noun is a straightforward nominalization of the adjective 'gone' with '-ness' indicating the state or quality of being gone; the meaning is directly predictable though the word is uncommon.

Etymology

The word goneness comes from gone ('not here') and the ending -ness, which turns a word into a noun for a state or feeling. So, goneness is the feeling or state that someone or something is no longer present, like the empty chair that shows someone has left.