Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SOL'I-TA-RI-NESS, n.

1. The state of being alone; forbearance of company; retirement, or habitual retirement. At home, in wholesome solitariness. – Donne.
2. Solitude; loneliness; destitution of company or of animated beings; applied to place; as, the solitariness of the country or of a wood.