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 a world filled with endless connections and constant communication, the relationship between loneliness and aloneness is not always clear.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

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

It’s kind of a metaphor for life and the people that come in and out of your life, and loss and love and death and, again, aloneness.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2022

The worst feeling had been the aloneness, before they had heard the footsteps, the knowing that however loudly he cried out, there was nobody at all who could hear him.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill