goneness

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noun

The state or quality of being gone, i.e. no longer present.

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Meanings

noungoneness (countable and uncountable, plural gonenesses)

plural gonenesses

  1. countableuncountableThe state or quality of being gone, i.e. no longer present.

    It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust.

    1999, Vivian Patraka, Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust
  2. UScountableinformaluncountableA state of exhaustion or faintness, especially from hunger.

Origin

From gone + -ness.

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APA

goneness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/goneness

MLA

“goneness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/goneness. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “goneness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/goneness.

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