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loneliness
  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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  6. Examples:
    1. “It speaks ill for his father's care that he rejoiced in the quiet days and reveled in his loneliness.”
      “In spite of her love for Jonathan, Amanda has difficulty adjusting to being poor, due to the loneliness of the town and its rustic conditions.”
      “But none of these figures can begin to communicate the loneliness so many survivors feel, even when surrounded by thousands of others just like them.”
loner
  1. One who is alone, lacking or avoiding the company of others.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A loner with few friends, he works as a diamond diver during the summer months and follows a family of strandwolves during the winter months.”
      “Do you sometimes feel that your philosophy, as you say, makes you a loner among British coaches?”
      “Help arrives in the surprising form of dark-haired Agnes, a smart loner instinctively disliked by everyone else.”
loneness
  1. (now rare) The state of being alone; loneliness, solitariness.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Similarly, no gender effect was found on their restrained actions or feelings including feeling loneness or using powerless languages.”
      “Then they were alone, and it was a loneness such as an eagle might feel when it held itself poised high in the curve of blue.”
      “There's the personal experience, the moments when nerves strained, when we felt a sense of disorientation and loneness we can't shake off even days after the storm.”
aloneness
  1. The state of being alone; solitude, isolation.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Both of the characters feel the terrible pain of aloneness and separateness felt also by both Linnet and Owl of the changeling stories.”
      “We get a shot of Ben staring into his fish tank, a recurring symbol that emphasizes Ben's feelings of entrapment and aloneness.”
      “Then, elated with the tranquillity of aloneness, I sat upon dusty shoes extracting ideas from my brain to be written painfully into my journal.”
lonesomeness
  1. The state of being lonesome.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “For his love alone does she remain in that contemptible town, suffering the lonesomeness of teenage cruelty.”
      “It is a story of passion and lonesomeness which inspires as well as entertains.”
      “There is a tremendous impression of isolation and lonesomeness in our situation.”
lonesome
  1. (informal) Oneself alone.
lonesomenesses
lonelinesses
alonenesses
lonesomes
  1. plural of lonesome
loners
  1. plural of loner
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The viewer is faced with the aftermath of an unspecified disaster, and a countryside filled with wandering loners on the brink of oollapse.”
      “These positive findings challenge the conventional view of gamers as introverted loners.”
      “Between there and the mainland were only a few scattered fishermen, renegades, loners and eccentrics.”
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