aloneness

Example Sentences

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So this one was about some of the things that older women are facing: aloneness and loneliness and friendship and loss and family and healing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

A “sense of aloneness — of loneliness, really — is the theme that runs through Hecht’s strongest writing and through Yezzi’s biography. Yezzi is alert to it.”

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024

On analyzing the result from the entire participant pool, there was only a 3% overlap between aloneness and loneliness.

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

There is a kind of alchemy to it, when one human touches another and makes the aloneness less terrifying.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed