lonesomeness

English

Etymology

From lonesome +‎ -ness.

Noun

lonesomeness (countable and uncountable, plural lonesomenesses)

1. The state of being lonesome.

   Synonyms: ellingness, monopathy; see also Thesaurus:loneliness

   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, pages 169–170:

     Wake up, by-and-by, and look to see what done it, and maybe see a steamboat, coughing along up stream, so far off towards the other side you couldn't tell nothing about her only whether she was stern-wheel or side-wheel; then for about an hour there wouldn't be nothing to hear nor nothing to see—just solid lonesomeness.