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A feeling of depression resulting from being alone or from having no companions.uncountableusually
- The loneliness resulting from the loss of loved ones, lack of purpose in life, and social discrimination is a real inner hell.
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The condition or state of being alone or having no companions.uncountableusually
- 1657, Richard Ligon, A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados, London: Humphrey Moseley, Dedicatory letter to the Bishop of Salisbury, [I] was designing a piece of Landscape […] wherein I meant to expresse […] the beauties of the Ve
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The state of being unfrequented or devoid of human activity (of a place or time).uncountableusually
- 1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, London: G.G. & J. Robinson, Volume 4, Chapter 3, p. 50, […] as she sat at her bed-side, indulging melancholy reveries, which the loneliness of the hour assisted […]
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A desire to be alone; disposition to solitude.obsoleteuncountableusually
- […] I see The mystery of your loneliness, and find Your salt tears’ head: now to all sense ’tis gross You love my son […]
syn. ellingness · forlornness · lonelihood · loneliness · lonesomeness · monopathy
ant. companionship · fellowship · sociableness · isolophilia