forlornityn.
/fəˈlɔːnɪti/ Originally U.S.
a. Forlornness.
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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
a1870 in D.A.E. (at cited word) Forlornity, forlorn condition.
1878 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. (1917) I. 341 Livy and Clara sat down forlorn, and cried... Last night the forlornities had all disappeared.
1904 B. von Hutten Pam iii. ii ‘Oh!’ she added, breaking into rueful laughter at the sight of his fat forlornity.
1922 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 489 In their rusty forlornity.
b. A forlorn person.
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1917 H. T. Comstock Man thou Gavest 320 Thomas explained and apologized for the admittance of the two ‘forlornities’, as he called them.
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