gonenessn.

1843 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 10 Jan. As to the literature of the stage, as nobody lived by it, nobody is starved by the ‘gone-ness’ of ‘the vocation’.

1886 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 12 Dec. 22/2 The ministry..could join Othello in discoursing on the goneness of their occupation.

1901 Christian Evangelist 31 Jan. 138/2 The death of these governments no more shows that the Referendum is dangerous than the gone-ness of Rome shows that our Republic is doomed unless we get it.

1953 M. DeJong Hurry Home, Candy iii. 20 The puppy only understood in a confused way the goneness of the warm, secure mother and the nest.

2004 Guardian (Nexis) 15 Sept. (Society section) 9 I used to..remember his stories, thinking about the lost place. Its whole magic is its hiddenness, its goneness.

1844 Daily Atlas (Boston) 6 Apr. (advt.) Weakness of voice..sense of goneness or sinking in the stomach..[etc.].

1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. iii. ii. 628 Others, without actual pain, complain of a sense of ‘goneness’, which leaves them exhausted and almost breathless.

1887 Mrs. H. Campbell Prisoners of Poverty xi. 132 I wake up in the morning with an awful kind o' goneness that seems as if a taste [of drink] might help it.

1920 R. Hughes Momma 21 I don't know how to describe it. It's just a kind of gener'l goneness. I got no heart for anything.

2005 A. H. Shaikh Top 10 Homoeopathic Remedies 326 Tremor.., Sinking or goneness in epigastrium, nausea [etc.].