Solitariness

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈsÉ’lɪt(É™)ɹɪnÉ™s/

Origin

From solitary + -ness.

Full definition of solitariness

Noun

1. The state or quality of being solitary.
• 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.8:I saw a Deane of S. Hillarie of Poictiers, reduced by reason and the incommoditie of his melancholy to such a continuall solitarinesse, that when I entered into his chamber he had never removed one step out of it in two and twenty yeares before ....