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countable and uncountable, plural gonenesses
The state or quality of being gone, i.e. no longer present. quotations examples
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.
1999, Vivian Patraka, Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust
(US, informal) A state of exhaustion or faintness, especially from hunger. examples