forlornness
Plural: forlornnesses
Noun
- sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
- The state or characteristic of being forlorn; sadness; loneliness.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English forlorennesse, from Old English forlorenes (“state of being forlorn, perdition, destruction”), equivalent to forlorn + -ness.
Synonyms
desolation, loneliness, blueness, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, ellingness, forlornness, grief, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, lonelihood, lonesomeness, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mishappiness, monopathy, mourn, prosternation, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, woe, woefare, wretchedness
Scrabble Score: 14
forlornness: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordforlornness: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
forlornness: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary