aloneness

Questions about aloneness

What does aloneness mean?

aloneness means "a disposition toward being alone".

How many syllables are in aloneness?

aloneness has 4 syllables and divides as a-lo-ne-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for aloneness?

Close synonyms include loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aloneness a common word?

aloneness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.