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[ noun ] the state of being alone in solitary isolation
Synonyms Used in print (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)Loneliness tore through him like a physical pain whenever he thought_of Peter_Robert , Nerien , Nicholas_Cop , Martin_Bucer , and even the compromising Louis_du_Tillet . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)Or was he now taking the role - the gesture and the suffering - because it was the only way to affirm his history and identity in the torpid , befogged loneliness of this land . In the pity for them his loneliness was gone . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)She would rather live in danger than die of loneliness and boredom . Related terms |
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[ noun ] sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
Synonyms Used in print (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)The Secretary did not tell him at what cost , at what loneliness , he learned these things . |
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[ noun ] a disposition toward being alone
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