loneness
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Radtke conveys loneliness as a societal problem but also shows the extreme personal toll it can have on someone and how, the deeper into loneness you fall, the harder it is to come out.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
The hour, the distance from her old self, all The novelty and loneness of the place Had left a lovely awe on that fair face, And all the land grew strange and magical.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"How delightfully independent you are!" and Miss Fred, encircled by comrades, seemed really to envy the other her loneness in the world.
From Told In The Hills by Marah Ellis Ryan
Then they were alone, and it was a loneness such as an eagle might feel when it held itself poised high in the curve of blue.
From The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I felt, in my visions, a cosmic and abysmal loneness; with hostility surging from all sides upon some prison where I lay confined.
From The Shunned House by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
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