ALONENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aloneness mean? 

• ALONENESS (noun)
  The noun ALONENESS has 1 sense:

1. a disposition toward being alone

  Familiarity information: ALONENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALONENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disposition toward being alone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

aloneness; loneliness; lonesomeness; solitariness

Hypernyms ("aloneness" is a kind of...):

disposition; temperament (your usual mood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aloneness"):

friendlessness (being without friends)

reclusiveness (a disposition to prefer seclusion or isolation)

Derivation:

alone (isolated from others)

alone (lacking companions or companionship)