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FRIENDLESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does friendlessness mean? 

FRIENDLESSNESS (noun)
  The noun FRIENDLESSNESS has 1 sense:

1. being without friendsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FRIENDLESSNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Being without friends

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

aloneness; loneliness; lonesomeness; solitariness (a disposition toward being alone)

Derivation:

friendless (excluded from a society)


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