lonely-heartedness en · NOUN
Etymology
From lonely-hearted + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being lonely-hearted.
Some traces of lonely-heartedness we find in all his poems, and shall probably find them to the end, although less intensely saddening than in his " Threnody" of " Night and Morning."
1861, Macphail, Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, page 109:I tried to believe that tenderness of affection was incompatible with strength of intellect, and that my lonely-heartedness was only the price which I paid for my genius.
1849, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age - Volume 21, page 283: