desolatenessn.
The state or quality of being desolate; desertedness, dismal barrenness; cheerlessness, dreary misery.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [noun]
unselthc888
ermtheOE
unselea1023
wellawayOE
wretchhead1154
wandrethc1175
woec1175
wanea1200
wretchdom?c1225
yomernessc1250
balec1275
un-i-selec1275
wan-siðc1275
unseelinessa1300
wretchedheada1300
cursedness1303
wretcheddomc1320
wrechea1325
wretchnessa1330
tribulationc1330
wretchednessa1340
caitifty1340
meeknessa1382
unwealsomeness1382
infelicityc1384
caitifhedea1400
ill liking?a1400
sorea1400
ungleea1400
unweala1400
caitifnessc1400
deploration1490
caitifdoma1500
woefulnessa1513
misery1527
miserity1533
mishappinessa1542
unwealfulnessa1555
tribulance1575
miserableness1613
agony1621
desolatenessa1626
unblissa1628
unhappiness1722
misère1791
shadow1855
valley1882
miz1918
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > deserted condition
desertnessa1400
desolationc1460
deserta1500
vastity1545
desolatenessa1626
wastefulness1674
desertedness1818
desertion1876
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [noun] > state of being left alone or forlorn
forletnessa1300
desolation1598
desolatenessa1626
desertion1751
forlornness1850
desertedness1866
forlornitya1870
a1626 F. Bacon Wks. (1861) VI. 38 In so great discomfort it hath pleased God some ways to regard my desolateness.
1639 Baker in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxliii. 5 A comfort to the desolateness of my heart.
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) ii. xv. 135 The forlornness and desolateness of that forsaken Habitacle, the Body of a natural Fool.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna v. xxviii. 107 The swift fall Of one so great and terrible of yore, To desolateness.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. x. 107 He had so weary a sense of his desolateness.
1877 ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings II. xix. 249 To face the desolateness of Wales.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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