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Meanings of lonesomeness in English

Portuguese
solidão
Catalan
solitud
Spanish
soledad

A disposition toward being alone.

solidão
Usage of lonesomeness in English
1
There is a tremendous impression of isolation and lonesomeness in our situation.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3
2
With a new lonesomeness he drew his eyes down to the mountains.
The Seventh Man
3
The wind howled its lonesomeness through the buildings but no one answered.
Sea of Rust
4
It's the lonesomeness, and they bein' aginJimtheway theyare.
Judith of the Plains
5
I gasp, in sudden terror at the lonesomeness of our situation.
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
6
The devil a bit of lonesomeness there was in it then.
The Untilled Field
7
They won't stand for the country and the lonesomeness, I reckon.
The Circular Staircase
8
All is quite right, but I have been accursed with lonesomeness.
The Net
9
Did perhaps their hearts despond, because lonesomeness had swallowed me like a whale?
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
10
I almost die of lonesomeness, wondering what you and the children are doing!
The Treasure
11
Not darkness, and lonesomeness, and sadness, but 'light, freedom, and song.'
Freckles
12
One thing is forsakenness, another matter is lonesomeness: THAT hast thou now learned!
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
13
Now he is without rank and grim in his lonesomeness.
Tropic Days
14
Such revenge doth mine abundance think of: such mischief welleth out of my lonesomeness.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
15
And that would drive the lonesomeness away before it dared to show its face.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
16
A wave of homesickness and lonesomeness comes over Henry, in the tropical noon sun.
The new yorker
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Translations for lonesomeness
Portuguese
solidão
Catalan
solitud
Spanish
soledad
Lonesomeness through the time
Lonesomeness across language varieties
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