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A disposition toward being alone
Answer for the clue "A disposition toward being alone ", 9 letters:
aloneness
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Word definitions for aloneness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aloneness \A*lone"ness\, n. A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.] --Bp. Montagu.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a disposition toward being alone [syn: loneliness , lonesomeness , solitude ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being alone; solitude, isolation.
Usage examples of aloneness.
This was so new and strange a thing for her who had built her life upon her own silence and aloneness that she pushed it from her foremind, telling herself that there might well be trouble in the foothills, and two fighters were better than one if that came.
Then, as if I suddenly saw his shadow for the first time, I glimpsed an aloneness that trailed back behind him to his earliest years.
A reconciliation between men will be ethically valid if they are reconciled within themselves and with each other to the principle of aloneness and reciprocity, to the principle that there can be no valid ethics for the man who has not assumed his aloneness.
The force of alignment is such that once the assemblage point breaks away from its normal position, it becomes fixed at other positions, by other alignments, and warriors run the risk of getting stranded in inconceivable aloneness.
When I told him my theory about how all left-handers were once part of a pair of twins, he said that made sense: he is left-handed too, and has always felt a sense of aloneness in the world.