lonesomeness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English lonesome Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English lonesomeness From lonesome + -ness.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The state of being lonesome.
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.
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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| lonesomenesses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
lonelihood · ellingness · loneliness · lonesomeness · forlornness · monopathy · monopathy · ellingness