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FORLORNNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does forlornness mean?
• FORLORNNESS (noun)
The noun FORLORNNESS has 1 sense:
1. sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
Familiarity information: FORLORNNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
desolation; forlornness; loneliness
Hypernyms ("forlornness" is a kind of...):
sadness; unhappiness (emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being)
Context examples
"Yes," responded Abbot; "if she were a nice, pretty child, one might compassionate her forlornness; but one really cannot care for such a little toad as that."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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