as in solitude
the state of being alone or kept apart from others
it was an overwhelming sense of aloneness that eventually drove the island castaway mad
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Recent Examples of aloneness
This is a telling fantasy—to feel more content in one’s dreamed aloneness than in real society.
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Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aloneness
Noun
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And solitude is killing us softly.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Jen, an orphaned Gelling raised in solitude by a gentle race of creatures called the Mystics, must find the missing shard that will heal the crystal and restore balance to the universe.—
Eric E. Harrison,
Arkansas Online,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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More advanced methods, including differential privacy and federated learning, allow researchers to collaborate without moving sensitive data outside hospital walls.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Massachusetts is unusual in that state victim privacy laws bar police from releasing incident reports of rape to the public.—
Willoughby Mariano,
ProPublica,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Solitude, mind you, not loneliness.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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To counteract his loneliness, Michell invited his friends to Thornhill.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Time behind bars often brings exposure to violence, isolation, and the loss of personal control, experiences that can create lingering fear, anxiety, and symptoms much like post-traumatic stress disorder.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Scientists revealed that the nuclei of hydrogen isotopes form plasma, which, being electrically charged, can be held in isolation from the walls by a magnetic field inside the toroidal vacuum chamber of the reactor (these sorts of reactors are called tokamaks).—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Aloneness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aloneness. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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