Crossword clues for loneliness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loneliness \Lone"li*ness\, n.
The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.
The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road.
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Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.
I see The mystery of your loneliness.
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A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.
Syn: Solitude; seclusion. See Solitude.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from lonely + -ness.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A feeling of depression resulting from being alone. 2 The condition or state of being lonely; solitude; seclusion. 3 The state of being unfrequented. 4 (context obsolete English) Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.
WordNet
n. the state of being alone in solitary isolation [syn: solitariness]
sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned [syn: forlornness, desolation]
a disposition toward being alone [syn: aloneness, lonesomeness, solitude]
Wikipedia
Loneliness is a complex and usually unpleasant emotional response to isolation or lack of companionship. Loneliness typically includes anxious feelings about a lack of connection or communication with other beings, both in the present and extending into the future. As such, loneliness can be felt even when surrounded by other people. The causes of loneliness are varied and include social, mental, emotional or even physical factors.
Research has shown that loneliness is widely prevalent throughout society among people in marriages, relationships, families, veterans and successful careers. It has been a long explored theme in the literature of human beings since classical antiquity. Loneliness has also been described as social pain — a psychological mechanism meant to alert an individual of isolation and motivate them to seek social connections.
"Loneliness" is a song by the German DJ Tomcraft. It was written by Ivan Matias and Andrea Martin, Thomas Bruckner and Eniac and produced by Eniac and Tomcraft. It was released as a single in 2002 worldwide and on 28 April 2003 in the United Kingdom. The single peaked at number ten on the German Singles Chart. It topped the charts in the United Kingdom.
The song is based on an excerpt of Martin's 1999 single "Share the Love".
Will Young sampled the song for his 2015 single " Love Revolution".
"Loneliness" is a short-story by Charles Bukowski collected in his 1973 collection South of No North, originally published by John Martin's Black Sparrow Press. It's the first short-story of the book.
Loneliness is a complex and usually unpleasant emotional response to isolation or lack of companionship.
Loneliness may also refer to:
- "Loneliness" (short story), a short-story by Charles Bukowski
- "Loneliness" (song), a song by the German DJ Tomcraft
- Loneliness (album), a 1988 album by Sanchez
Usage examples of "loneliness".
The loneliness of Usu Bay is something wonderful--a house full of empty rooms falling to decay, with only two men in it--one Japanese house among 500 savages, yet it was the only one in which I have slept in which they bolted neither the amado nor the gate.
I take my seat on a step of the stairs above the araucaria and, resting awhile with folded hands, I contemplate this little garden of order and let the touching air it has and its somewhat ridiculous loneliness move me to the depths of my soul.
Only the day he had been forced to leave the Baptist at Bethabara had he felt such loneliness, and even that did not compare to this.
But loneliness makes a cold bedfellow, she thought as she changed into her nightgown.
He wanted to pour out to her in torrents of self-pity all his unbearable loneliness and despair and warn her never to leave the boric acid or the aspirin in reach of the children or to cross a street against the traffic light.
Then later, when they dropped him from the Bugle Corps because he got the clap and nobody of his many friends stepped forward to go to bat for him and try to get him reinstated, this had increased his loneliness, but it also hardened his invulnerability.
They stood menacing and dark against the early-morning sky, stark, grim guardians of a once-hallowed place, with LongMeg, the outlier, conspicuous because of her greater height and what Capella, thought of as her loneliness.
He was, he said, an old codger set in his ways, and although lonely at times, he had adjusted to loneliness.
Hence it was the harder for Mr Cupples, in his loneliness, to do battle with his deep-rooted desires.
Others are driven to cybersex out of loneliness, dependency, anger, or a deep insatiable emptiness that demands to be filled.
She could almost see the vista of three eagles soaring on the wind currents above the nest containing the lone eaglet, hear its helpless cry, feel its loneliness.
But, on the other side of the river, there is a little house of that most unsuitable, frilled and goffered kind the Russians elect to build out here and the Escapee guesses, by its loneliness, it is the home of an exile such as he was, who will give us a welcome.
Beneath that as an evocation of existential loneliness, a Christian fable, a parable of the artist.
His spirit was as steady as a rock, as enduring as the earth, and like the flash of a light, the sight of his good, grey ugly face could always evoke for Eugene the whole wrought fabric of his life in the city, the whole design of wandering and return, with a thousand memories of youth and hunger, of loneliness, fear, despair, of glory, love, exultancy and joy.
And suddenly it seemed to her that she knew all these lonely, strange, and unknown watchers of the night, that she was speaking to them, and they to her, across the fields of sleep, as they had never spoken before, that she knew men now in all their dark and naked loneliness, without falseness and pretence as she had never known them.