lonesomeness

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Lonesomeness and cultural dislocation are the norm, and traditional songlines are sometimes surprisingly upbeat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fatigue was in the damp air, surely, but Spring was also there, and Lonesomeness, and worst of all, that desolating sense of patient, dying snow wasting away before one's eyes like Life itself.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

The Land of Lonesomeness Now we had been five days in the boats, and in all this time made no discovering of land.

From The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by Hodgson, William Hope

"Lonesomeness is worse'n hunger," said Buck Daniels, and he met her gaze steadily with his black eyes.

From The Night Horseman by Brand, Max

Lonesomeness was the very thing he had tried to keep out of that letter.

From Cap'n Dan's Daughter by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby