ALONENESS Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

aloneness

noun

Definition of aloneness

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 Two people in heady early love, fearing uncertainty and aloneness, rush to get closer. — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026 But the porch light, with only one working bulb, refuses to show us the perfect curves of her aloneness. — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026

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Noun

Billy’s main creative outlet in her years of solitude has been visual art, and her work—abstractions dominated by the geometric forms of Little Death’s air-vent face—seems like a closed circuit of self-therapy.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 31 July 2026
The park also covers more than 3 million acres of mountains, glaciers, rainforests, coastlines, and fjords, giving you plenty of space to explore and find a little solitude.

— Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2026

Definition of solitude

Noun

The other half is a compliance-and-privacy layer, built on the same argument that crypto never actually proves who paid whom.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Buttery defended that decision, saying an employee operating a cruiser or unmarked car has no expectation of privacy.

— Kelsy Mittauer, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of privacy

Noun

That’s good, because healthy friendships can make kids happier, improve their self-esteem and resilience, and protect against loneliness and depression.

— Kara Alaimo, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
Harpman was writing in a different era, but the elegiac loneliness of her fiction anticipates our own solitary and screen-bound present.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of loneliness

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