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aloneness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of aloneness

the state of being alone or kept apart from others

  • it was an overwhelming sense of aloneness that eventually drove the island castaway mad
Synonyms of aloneness

insulation, isolation, privacy, secludedness, seclusion, segregation, separateness, sequestration, solitariness, solitude
Words Related to aloneness

loneliness, lonesomeness

vacuum

confinement, incarceration, internment, quarantine

retirement, withdrawal

ghettoization
Near Antonyms of aloneness

camaraderie, companionship, company, comradeship, fellowship, society

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