LONESOMENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lonesomeness mean? 

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

1. a disposition toward being alone

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONESOMENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disposition toward being alone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

aloneness; loneliness; lonesomeness; solitariness

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

disposition; temperament (your usual mood)

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

friendlessness (being without friends)

reclusiveness (a disposition to prefer seclusion or isolation)

Derivation:

lonesome (being the only one; single and isolated from others)