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loneliness|ˈləʊnlɪnɪs|
[f. lonely + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being lonely.
1. Want of society or company; the condition of being alone or solitary; solitariness, loneness.
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. (1590) 49 b, That huge and sportfull assemblie grewe to him a tedious lonelinesse, esteeming no body founde, since Daiphantus was lost. 1645Milton Tetrach. (Gen. ii. 18), It is not good for man to be alone... Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye nam'd not good. 1814Byron Corsair i. viii, That man of loneliness and mystery. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. i. 2 The eccentric habits which belong to a state of loneliness. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §3. 368 The loneliness of her [Elizabeth's] position only reflected the loneliness of her nature.
2. Uninhabited or unfrequented condition or character (of a place); desolateness.
1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 8 The deep silence added to the gloomy aspect, and both heightened by the loneliness of the place, greatly increased the solemnity of the scene. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. ii. 11 The loneliness of the place was very impressive. 1900J. Watson in Expositor Sept. 181 The unrelieved loneliness of mid-ocean.
b. A lonely spot. nonce-use.
1819Shelley Rosalind & Helen 1029 In the bowers of mossy lonelinesses.
3. The feeling of being alone; the sense of solitude; dejection arising from want of companionship or society.
1814Wordsw. Excurs. vii. 403 He grew up From year to year in loneliness of soul. 1863J. C. Murphy Comm. Gen. xxv. 1 His loneliness on the death of Sarah may have prompted him to seek a companion of his old age. 1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. II. xxx. 581 My own secret aches and lonelinesses. |