goneness

English

Etymology

gone +‎ -ness

Noun

goneness (countable and uncountable, plural gonenesses)

1. The state or quality of being gone, i.e. no longer present.
   • 1999, Vivian Patraka, Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust:

     It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust.

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