noun
- the state or quality of being lonely, forsaken, or desolate
Usage: literary or archaic; often used to describe a melancholic or sorrowful emotional state
Examples
- The old house on the hill seemed to embody a deep lornness.
- She felt a profound lornness after her friends moved away.
- The lornness in his eyes revealed years of isolation.
- The abandoned village had an air of lornness about it.
- His poetry often explored themes of lornness and melancholy.