Meaning of goneness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state or quality of being gone, i.e. no longer present.
   countable, uncountable
2. A state of exhaustion or faintness, especially from hunger.
   US, countable, informal, uncountable

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.”

CEFR level