Meanings
plural alonenesses
- countableuncountableThe state of being alone; solitude, isolation.
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.
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 425Synonyms: oneship, seclusion, isolation, loneliness, loneness, onehead, oneship, onlyhood · Antonyms: togetherness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state of being alone; solitude, isolation.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna disposition toward being alone
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishalonnesse
- Englishaloneness
From Middle English alonnesse; equivalent to alone + -ness.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
German Alleinsein
- Alleinseinthe state of being alone
Irish aonaránacht
- aonaránachtthe state of being alone
Italian solitudine
- solitudinethe state of being alone
Romanian singurătate
- singurătatethe state of being alone
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aloneness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aloneness
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