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Loneness vs Goneness - What's the difference?

loneness | goneness |

As nouns the difference between loneness and goneness

is that loneness is the state of being alone; loneliness, solitariness while goneness is the state or quality of being gone, ie no longer present.

loneness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state of being alone; loneliness, solitariness.
  • *1635 , John Donne, The Indifferent :
  • *:Her who loves lonenesse best, and her who maskes and plaies [...].

    • goneness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being gone, i.e. no longer present.
  • * 1999 , Vivian Patraka, Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust
    • 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.
  • (US, informal) A state of exhaustion or faintness, especially from hunger.