Definition of Goneness

1. n. A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger.

Definition of Goneness

1. Noun. (US informal) A state of exhaustion or faintness, especially from hunger. ¹

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Definition of Goneness

1. a state of exhaustion [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Goneness

gone snake
gone the whole hog
gone through with
gone to bed
gone to hell
gone to pot
gone to sleep
gone to the dogs
gone together
gone under
gone with the wind
gonef
gonefs
goneness (current term)
gonenesses
goner
goners
gonfalon
gonfalonier
gonfaloniers
gonfalons
gonfanon
gonfanons
gong
gong buoy
gong show
gonged
gongfu

Literary usage of Goneness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1879)
"The sensation of goneness and prostration accompanied each passage, ... The head symptoms and the feeling of goneness and prostration all very prominent. ..."

2. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies by Edward Pollock Anshutz (1900)
"goneness in epigastrium ; vertigo while sitting, with heat of face and ... goneness comes and goes ; hunger. 11:45. Aching at lower edge of right ear ..."

3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1849)
"CERTAIN CURE FOR SENSE OF goneness. H^HIS invaluable Tonic has now been be fore J. tbc public for a quarter of a century, and a century would fail to tell ..."

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