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
"Oh, Bab," said wee Lucy, "I had such a loneness without you!"
From Jimmy, Lucy, and All by Sophie May
He adds, If of court-life you knew the good, You would leave loneness.
From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
And in this new loneness of his that had been selected for what greatness he might achieve, beauty must be relative or, itself a harmony, it would make only a discord.
From This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
He had no taste for more cheerful images, and there are neither rural objects nor villagery in the scenes he describes, but only loneness and the solemnity of mountains.
From The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt
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