lostness

The fact or quality of being lost.

Noun

  1. The fact or quality of being lost.
    • It came without warning, and she seemed to collapse on completely on the bed where she was sitting, with a lostness about her which startled me. - 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 170:
    • When a stranger comes to their door asking for someone named Shauntrelle, it’s like a demonstration of their lostness. - 2009 February 8, Adam Kirsch, “Intimate Betrayals”, in New York Times:

Origin

From lost + -ness.

Forms

lostnesses