lonely-heartedness
nounEtymology From lonely-hearted + -ness.
1
The quality of being lonely-hearted.
- I tried to believe that tenderness of affection was incompatible with strength of intellect, and that my lonely-heartedness was only the price which I paid for my genius.1849, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age - Volume 21, page 283:
- Some traces of lonely-heartedness we find in all his poems, and shall probably find them to the end, although less intensely saddening than in his " Threnody" of " Night and Morning."1861, Macphail, Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, page 109: