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
She lingers where a ruddy glow Streams outward through an open shutter, Adding more bitterness to woe, More loneness to desertion utter.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell
Only in the uneventful days to find her loneness intensified a thousand times, and without escape.
From Winding Paths by Gertrude Page
The one human thing, with the goblins before me— Alone—in a loneness so ghastly—Alone!
From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education
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