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goneness [gawn-nis, gon-] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a sinking sensation; exhaustion or faintness.
Origin of goneness An Americanism dating back to 1840–50; gone + -ness Examples from the Web for goneness Historical Examples of goneness
And all the other foreigners were in the like case of “goneness.”
The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner
Charles Dudley Warner
I wasn’t in a temper anymore—and it left a dreadful sort of goneness, too.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
It’s extraordinary the goneness of things directly I’m away from you.
Elizabeth von Arnim
Am drowsy, eyes “heavy;” goneness and unusual craving for food.
New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers
Various
Well, you confessed to a fearful sense of goneness yourself.
Lilian Bell