lonely-heartedness

noun

The quality of being lonely-hearted.

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Meanings

nounlonely-heartedness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being lonely-hearted.

    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
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    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

Origin

From lonely-hearted + -ness.

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