The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ISOLATION
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More clues leading to the result ISOLATION
- Is old feeling of delight not starting, being alone?
- Solace, one replacing prisoner’s loneliness
- One very old language covers nothing by itself, in this
- One remedy that has answer for universal solitude
- New lino’s outside at number ten, being detached
- Withdrawal is over? Uplifting feeling to be drug-free!
- “O joy”, leader expressed, on island’s remoteness
- Idyll’s beginning thus with language about love and loneliness
- Current loan is to supply withdrawal
- Quarantine no.1 hit featuring three consecutive notes
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The straight part
We know that "being alone" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case being alone = isolation.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ISOLATION mean?
ISOLATION noun- The state of being isolated, detached, or separated.
- The state of being away from other people.
- The act of isolating.
- (of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
- The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
- The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
- A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.