Now rare or dial. Also 7 loness, loanness(e, 9 Sc. laneness. [f. LONE a. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being lone; solitariness; loneliness; lonesomeness.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Desacompañamiento, lonenesse.
1609. Daniel, Civ. Wars, VIII. lxxi. Shee feares the fatall daunger of the place, Her loneness, and the powre of Maiestie.
1609. W. Sclater, Threef. Preservat. (1610), Ep. Ded. Singular I am sure I am not, Sith neyther I affect lonenesse [etc.].
1613–6. W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. iv. Yet there’s in loannesse somewhat may delight.
1839. Bailey, Festus, ii. (1852), 14. That soothing fret which makes the young untried … In dreams and loneness cry.
1844. W. Holmes, in Whitelaw, Bk. Sc. Song (1875), 127. The laneness is gane.
