aloneness

English

Etymology

From Middle English alonnesse; equivalent to alone +‎ -ness.

Noun

aloneness (countable and uncountable, plural alonenesses)

1. The state of being alone; solitude, isolation.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 425:

     Suddenly, [...] he saw all this as romantic — the last legionary, his aloneness, the lost cause really lost — and instinctively he pulled in his paunch, stroked down his hair to cover the naked part of the scalp, and wiped the sweat off his cheeks.

Synonyms

• solitude

Antonyms

• togetherness

Translations

the state of being alone

• German: Alleinsein (de) n
• Irish: aonaránacht f
• Italian: solitudine (it) f
• Ottoman Turkish: یالڭزلك (yalñızlık)
• Romanian: singurătate (ro)