loneliness

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural lonelinesses)

A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.
The condition or state of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.
The state of being unfrequented.
the loneliness of a road

Origin

lonely +"Ž -ness

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A wave of loneliness washed over her.
She felt a deep sense of loneliness and longing.
Maybe it was the fact that he never smiled, or the loneliness in those green eyes.
The loneliness drove her mad.
The loneliness of a queen who had no husband or children and no relatives to mention must at all times have been oppressive; it grew desolating in old age after the deaths of Leicester, Walsingham, Burghley and Essex, and Elizabeth died, the last of her race, on the 24th of March 1603.

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