Loneliness Uncovered

When people are truly lonely, they feel miserably unhappy, vacuous, and painfully hollow.

There are things that doesn't rhyme with loneliness at all. Voluntary solitude, for example, is not synonymous with loneliness. Lonely people do not voluntarily enter into that emotional state; rather, they "find themselves" feeling sometimes desperately lonely for reasons even they may not fully understand. Voluntary solitude, on the other hand, can be a healthy alternative to interacting with the "noise" of the world and a respite from the constancy of dealing with the sometimes harrowing contingencies of modern life. Solitude may be sought for deep growth experiences such as meditation, visualization, listening to music, and other forms of "doing nothing." Neither is being alone synonymous with loneliness: it shows that some lonely people have sufficient interactional networks and are, nonetheless, lonely because they are dissatisfied with those networks; conversely it is well known that some people enjoy the state of aloneness, within which they might be very productive or creative, and these people are alone without being lonely.

In addition to that, loneliness can be brought on to because of "emptiness and isolation." Another example to that is with Shakesphere's Coriolanus. Here's some of the lines that I've extracted from the book itself.

He that will give good words to thee will flatter

Beneath abhorring. What would you have, you curs,

That like nor peace nor war? the one affrights you,

The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you,

Where he should find you lions, finds you hares;

Where foxes, geese: you are no surer, no. (Lines 163-168).

Pretty ei? Well let's go back to the topic ( GEEZ, where have you been little girl? ).

Okay, so loneliness can be expressed in those terms.

Redefining loneliness... *source dictionary*

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  1. the state of being alone in solitary isolation(synonym) solitariness(hypernym) isolation


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  2. sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned(synonym) forlornness, desolation(hypernym) sadness, unhappiness


• 3. a disposition toward being alone(synonym) aloneness, lonesomeness, solitude(hypernym) disposition, temperament

On the first entry I defined loneliness in different ways and how do they differ from another state. In here, the examples are shown to enable you to differentiate what is loneliness to another material. Here ends my topic about loneliness. Unveiling it sure is fun. :3