goneness

noun — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From gone + -ness.

The state or quality of being gone, i.e. no longer present.

It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust.1999, Vivian Patraka, Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust:

US, Informal A state of exhaustion or faintness, especially from hunger.

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