lostness
nounEtymology From lost + -ness.
1
The fact or quality of being lost.
- It came without warning, and she seemed to collapse on completely on the bed where she was sitting, with a lostness about her which startled me.1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 170:
- When a stranger comes to their door asking for someone named Shauntrelle, it’s like a demonstration of their lostness.2009 February 8, Adam Kirsch, “Intimate Betrayals”, in New York Times: