loneliness
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noun- 1.
(uncountable, usually)A feeling of depression resulting from being alone or from having no companions.
The loneliness resulting from the loss of loved ones, lack of purpose in life, and social discrimination is a real inner hell.
Đồng nghĩa: ellingness, lonesomeness
- 2.
(uncountable, usually)The condition or state of being alone or having no companions.
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 Vegetables, that do adorn that place, in the highest perfection I could: But presently after, being cast into Prison, I was deprived both of light and lonelinesse, two main helpers in that Art […]
Đồng nghĩa: aloneness, friendlessness, aloneness, isolation, loneliness, loneness, onehead, oneship, onlyhood, onliness, seclusion, solitariness, solitude
- 3.
(uncountable, usually)The state of being unfrequented or devoid of human activity (of a place or time).
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 […]
Đồng nghĩa: unfrequentedness
- 4.
(obsolete, uncountable, usually)A desire to be alone; disposition to solitude.
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From lonely + -ness.