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  • noun Plural form of loneliness.

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Examples

  • But... your readers are here, many of us in our own lonelinesses, cheering you on - you're not alone and we do care

    An apology for an ill timed death Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • The prophylactic against the deepest and least remediable of existential lonelinesses.

    The lonely person's craving for telepathic intimacy Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • The prophylactic against the deepest and least remediable of existential lonelinesses.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk.

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

  • The lonely buildings busy with a thousand lonelinesses.

    A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929

  • She was older than the other three: a sweet, rather grave-faced woman with patient eyes that looked as if they had watched and waited through a great many lonelinesses.

    The Long Trick 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

  • There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk.

    The Beautiful and Damned 1918

  • And she was capable of such ferocious lonelinesses.

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • You see, in the years past, my life was not without its lonelinesses.

    The Red Planet William John Locke 1896

  • She never relinquished her soul, never fell into confidence, so in a sense we always remained strangers, for it is when lovers tell their illusions and lonelinesses that they know each other, the fiercest spasm tells us little, and it is forgotten, whereas the moment when a woman sighs and breaks into a simple confidence is remembered years afterwards, and brings her before us though she be underground or a thousand miles away.

    Memoirs of My Dead Life 1892

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