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goneness

[ gawn-nis, gon- ]

noun

  1. a sinking sensation; exhaustion or faintness.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of goneness1

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50; gone + -ness
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Example Sentences

It's extraordinary the goneness of things directly I'm away from you.

That goneness at his stomach, and the strange sensations up and down his spine, seemed incongruous in such valorous trappings.

There was a lot inside those slim, pasteboard covered books beside rats gnawing in drains, and twilight and all-goneness.

A kind o' sensation of goneness here, and a kind o' feelin' as it you might die suddint?

I wasn't in a temper anymore—and it left a dreadful sort of goneness, too.

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