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loneliness
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As a noun, loneliness means a feeling of depression resulting from being alone or from having no companions.
Meanings of loneliness
4 meaningsnoun
A feeling of depression resulting from being alone or from having no companions.
The condition or state of being alone or having no companions.
The state of being unfrequented or devoid of human activity (of a place or time).
Older and rare meanings (1)
obsoleteA desire to be alone; disposition to solitude.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
noun: the state of being alone in solitary isolation
noun: sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
forlornnessdesolation
noun: a disposition toward being alone
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