aloneness
Example Sentences
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Her Iris lets us see why, in our darkest times, the poles of forced solitude and togetherness can feel so unsatisfying, yet the right kind of aloneness can be the stuff of real healing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
A “sense of aloneness — of loneliness, really — is the theme that runs through Hecht’s strongest writing and through Yezzi’s biography. Yezzi is alert to it.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
On analyzing the result from the entire participant pool, there was only a 3% overlap between aloneness and loneliness.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2023
By contrast, I had made peace with my aloneness after so many years, and I had even found pleasure in my independence.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2023
Having a companion fixes you in time and that the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present, and future all flow together.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
