aloneness

Example Sentences

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Despite being in the company of countless others facing similar challenges in our generation, we have an overwhelming sense of aloneness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2023

In younger people, aloneness and loneliness are just two different things, Mehl said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

By contrast, I had made peace with my aloneness after so many years, and I had even found pleasure in my independence.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2023

“I liked his aloneness in the tumultuous room, his concentration on the outsized beef bone at hand.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2022

Having a companion fixes you in time and that the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present, and future all flow together.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck