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PRONUNCIATION OF FORLORNNESS

forlornness  [fəˈlɔːnnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FORLORNNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Forlornness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FORLORNNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Abandonment (existentialism)

Abandonment, in philosophy, refers to the infinite freedom of humanity without the existence of a condemning or omnipotent higher power. Original existentialism explores the liminal experiences of anxiety, death, "the nothing" and nihilism; the rejection of science as an adequate framework for understanding human being; and the introduction of "authenticity" as the norm of self-identity, tied to the project of self-definition through freedom, choice, and commitment. Existential thought bases itself fundamentally in the idea that one's identity is constituted neither by nature nor by culture, since to "exist" is precisely to constitute such an identity. It is from this foundation that one can begin to understand abandonment and forlornness.

Definition of forlornness in the English dictionary

The definition of forlornness in the dictionary is the quality or state of being miserable or desolate. Other definition of forlornness is the quality or state of being desperate.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FORLORNNESS


aloneness
əˈləʊnnəs
beinness
ˈbiːnnəs
betweenness
bɪˈtwiːnnəs
brazenness
ˈbreɪzənnəs
brokenness
ˈbrəʊkənnəs
brownness
ˈbraʊnnəs
doneness
ˈdʌnnəs
foreignness
ˈfɒrɪnnəs
forswornness
fɔːˈswɔːnnəs
humanness
ˈhjuːmənnəs
inaneness
ɪˈneɪnnəs
inopportuneness
ɪnˈɒpəˌtjuːnnəs
lornness
ˈlɔːnnəs
lovelornness
ˈlʌvˌlɔːnnəs
obsceneness
əbˈsiːnnəs
oftenness
ˈɒftənnəs
sereneness
sɪˈriːnnəs
uncleanness
ʌnˈkliːnnəs
withdrawnness
wɪðˈdrɔːnnəs
wornness
ˈwɔːnnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FORLORNNESS

forkless
forklift
forklike
forktail
forky
forlana
forlese
forlorn
forlorn hope
forlornly
form
form class
form critic
form critical
form criticism
form drag
form feed
form feeder
form genus
form leader

WORDS THAT END LIKE FORLORNNESS

business
cleanness
commonness
drunkenness
evenness
greenness
Guinness
keenness
leanness
McGuinness
meanness
openness
outspokenness
plainness
rottenness
sternness
stubbornness
suddenness
thinness
unevenness
wantonness

Synonyms and antonyms of forlornness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «forlornness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FORLORNNESS

Find out the translation of forlornness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of forlornness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «forlornness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

孤苦伶仃
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desamparo
570 millions of speakers

English

forlornness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

forlornness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

forlornness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безысходность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

forlornness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

forlornness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

forlornness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesabaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verlorenheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

forlornness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

forlornness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Forlornness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

forlornness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

forlornness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मंदावणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

forlornness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

desolazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

forlornness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безвихідність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

forlornness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

forlornness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verlatenheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

övergivenhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forlornness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of forlornness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FORLORNNESS»

The term «forlornness» is used very little and occupies the 163.132 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FORLORNNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about forlornness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FORLORNNESS»

Discover the use of forlornness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to forlornness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Logic As the Question Concerning the Essence of Language
We said that the manner in which the question is posed and how we avoid it has its ground in the essence of the human being, in his self- forlornness. Previously, however, we established that a self belongs to the essence of the human being.
Heidegger
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Naturalism and Subjectivism
Evidently Sartre regards the characteristic existentialist terms, anguish, forlornness, and despair, to be too precious to drop under any circumstances. The quaint assertion that "man is anguish" is taken to mean that one cannot help "choosing ...
Marvin Farber, 1959
3
Emotion and Reason: Mind, Brain, and the Social Domains of ...
®forlornness, ̄. which spans the meaningsof threeterms¥misery, forlornness, andloneliness. While love is a joyful acceptance of and by another, the emotion considered here combines the opposites of joy, sadness,and the oppositeof ...
Warren D. TenHouten, 2014
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Images of the Human: The Philosophy of the Human Person in a ...
For Sartre, an atheist should squarely confront the products of atheism: anguish, forlornness, and despair. Atheism produces anguish because we are free. Sartre is emphatic in teaching that humans are free; one might say that for him freedom  ...
Hunter Brown, Leonard A. Kennedy, 1995
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Innovations in Educational Psychology: Perspectives on ...
But was Sonny trying to blame it on anyone else, and then he like, I mean is he fleeing from forlornness, or is it for-, is it forlornness? He's showing forlornness . . . He's showing it, yeah. Himself, cause like, he makes the decision. He's the, no ...
Robert J. Sternberg PhD, David D. Preiss PhD, 2010
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The Origins of Responsibility
Sartre uses the term déréliction, which is rendered in English as “forlornness” or “ abandonment.” That the term is in fact Sartre's translation of Heidegger's Geworfenheit (“thrownness”), this passage indicates: “When we speak of forlornness, ...
François Raffoul, 2010
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Experiential Religion
Sartre describes this circumstance as man's “forlornness.” See Existentialism and Human Emotions, New York (1957), 23 et passim. “Man is condemned ever moment to invent man.” Sartre believes that this state exists because G01 does not ...
Richard R. Niebuhr, 2004
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The Critical Wager: Essays on Criticism and the Architecture ...
Anguish, forlornness, despair: each of these accompaniments to freedom has its territory. Anguish leads from the subject outward to the care and fear of other people. Sartre's entire massive sociology (Critique de la raison dialeetique) deals  ...
William D. Gairdner, 2012
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Twelve Great Philosophers: A Historical Introduction to ...
The second emotion of forlornness arises from our awareness that, in the absence of God and devoid of any common human nature, we are ultimately on our own in our decision making and the responsibility we bear for it. From this ...
Wayne P. Pomerleau, 1997
10
Race and State
terizes Christian history (if we leave aside exceptions such as Francis of Assisi) generates a readiness, higher than in other cultures and at other times, to yield to experiences of isolation, forlornness, desolation. These possibilities are kept in ...
Eric Voegelin, Klaus Vondung, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FORLORNNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term forlornness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Oh my word Alone, Lone, Lonely, Lonesome
Loneliness is a noun: solitude, isolation, seclusion, aloneness, dreariness, forlornness, lonesomeness. Lonesome is an adjective means lonely ... «The Hans India, Jul 15»
2
This is what Boland's Mill will look like following its €150m …
Boland's Mill is one of Dublin's iconic buildings, if only for its forlornness among the shiny, modern buildings surrounding it. But iconic it is. «Sunday World, Jul 15»
3
Theater review: 'South Pacific'
In the stage version, the keynote songs come early in the show, leaving us feeling that we have not earned the crushing forlornness contained ... «Richmond Times-Dispatch, Jun 15»
4
Fitzgerald: Meaning of 'one nation under God' died with decision
Perhaps there's a patriotic lyricist somewhere out there already pouring his or her heart into expressing a similar feeling of forlornness because ... «Boston Herald, Jun 15»
5
Zoos: shut them or support them?
It was in such a horrible state and I was filled with pity at seeing it with its sawn-off horn, scraped skin, its forlornness, marking its territory ... «Independent Online, Jun 15»
6
Pitirim Sorokin: expanding the radius of love
He saw communism and fascism as desperate attempts to break free from the spiritual desolation and forlornness of the West's decadent, ... «Open Democracy, Jun 15»
7
Review: In 'The Qualms,' a Sex Party Winds Up Being All Talk
Teri's little-girl-lost voice and desire to make everybody happy eventually give way to forlornness when it becomes clear that the party isn't ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
8
Where 'normality' and madness are two sides of one coin
With a stubborn and unself-aware forlornness, he tries to subordinate the not-so-noble environment in which he lives (the Israeli periphery of ... «Haaretz, Jun 15»
9
Abbreviating the thought
Her cheery eyes immediately give way to a sense of forlornness when her son hastily hangs up. Mehta fits into the role of the old woman nicely, ... «Business Standard, May 15»
10
Chameleon Finds Phrases
... as “among the voices voiceless,” but I couldn't detect any strong connection to the Beckett work save a certain forlornness of expression. «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, May 15»

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