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.

   Synonyms: oneship, seclusion; see also Thesaurus:solitude

   Antonym: togetherness

   • 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.

Translations

the state of being alone

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