goneness

[ gawn-nis, gon- ]

noun

1. a sinking sensation; exhaustion or faintness.

Word History and Origins

Origin of goneness¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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