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What does loneliness mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word loneliness? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A feeling of depression resulting from being alone or from having no companions.
  2. The condition or state of being alone or having no companions.
  3. The state of being unfrequented or devoid of human activity (of a place or time).
  4. (obsolete) A desire to be alone; disposition to solitude.
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But he also feels that an end would provide relief from the pain of his loneliness.
As they rode at anchor in Hobson's Bay they were amazed and delighted by the contrast to the silence and loneliness of their Antarctic sojourn.
I had been there since that September and was starting to feel the loneliness of the situation.
After the funeral, visits and invitations to those bereaved might help ease some of the loneliness and isolation.
Does the applicant act out of an aching loneliness, out of a need to have and control a source of love and affectional response?
The leopard cat got over her loneliness long enough to produce a litter of kittens.

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