lonely-heartedness

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English

Etymology

From lonely-hearted +‎ -ness.

Noun

lonely-heartedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being lonely-hearted.
    • 1849, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age - Volume 21, page 283:
      I tried to believe that tenderness of affection was incompatible with strength of intellect, and that my lonely-heartedness was only the price which I paid for my genius.
    • 1861, Macphail, Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, page 109:
      Some traces of lonely-heartedness we find in all his poems, and shall probably find them to the end, although less intensely saddening than in his " Threnody" of " Night and Morning."