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lostness en · NOUN

Etymology

From lost + -ness.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The fact or quality of being lost.
   • When a stranger comes to their door asking for someone named Shauntrelle, it’s like a demonstration of their lostness. 2009 February 8, Adam Kirsch, “Intimate Betrayals”, in New York Times:
   • It came without warning, and she seemed to collapse on completely on the bed where she was sitting, with a lostness about her which startled me. 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 170:

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Translations (2)

pt perdição (quality of being lost) · pl zagubienie (quality of being lost)