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  • noun Quality or property of being lovesick

Etymologies

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lovesick +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • There is a great deal of innocence to the story in spite of the fact the characters are in college, but actually, it keeps the everyone from wallowing in their own lovesickness, which is a complete and total relief for this hardened shojo reader.

    Manga Before Flowers — Short Reviews | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • The lovesickness of romantic love, the ecstasy of spiritual conversion, and the deep togetherness of familial relations were not anywhere near this bliss zone.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • The mountains provide an escape for Paul from his paralyzing lovesickness—just as the writing of the novel, we suspect, transported Sebastian from what he called in his diaries the "anti-Semitic dementia" of his daily surroundings.

    Tender and Tense Sam Sacks 2011

  • The mountains provide an escape for Paul from his paralyzing lovesickness—just as the writing of the novel, we suspect, transported Sebastian from what he called in his diaries the "anti-Semitic dementia" of his daily surroundings.

    Tender and Tense Sam Sacks 2011

  • It has some slow bits, and some prolonged bouts of humor Tom's lovesickness, his punctilio about make-believe that have to have felt at least a little labored even back in 1876, when it often took weeks or even months for a punchline to arrive.

    Michael Chabon On The N-Word In 'Huckleberry Finn' The Atlantic 2011

  • I offer this book, then, as a cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery.

    Catch all for 2.14.08 2008

  • There's no reason why I feel so tired and mopey, but Paul called me from France earlier and is apparently feeling exactly the same way, so I can only conclude that it is lovesickness.

    The One That I've Been Waiting For kisobel 2007

  • The 'sort of second/sort of first' round resumed, and my third reader asked a great question about lovesickness and eros.

    In the Crease Jes Battis 2007

  • The 'sort of second/sort of first' round resumed, and my third reader asked a great question about lovesickness and eros.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Jes Battis 2007

  • Finally, New York Waiting, directed and written by Joachim Hedén is a slow-moving (and the cynic in me thought at points kind of cheesy) meditation on the effects of lovesickness and wanderlust.

    Tobi Elkin: New York Trilogy: A Guide to Romantic Festival Flicks 2008

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