What's the difference between forlornness and loneliness?

Forlornness


Definition:

  • (n.) State of being forlorn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other side of the square is a forlorn half-built mosque, abandoned for lack of funds, sprouting grass from its foundations.
  • (2) As at the hospital, there was a forlorn air about Katine primary school the day we called in.
  • (3) The stadium was duly dotted with forlorn patches of brightly colored camp t-shirts whose inhabitants spent the game wilting off their seats in temperatures which stood at 101 degrees before kick off.
  • (4) Such views are increasingly common all over Detroit, the forlorn former capital of America's car industry and now a by-word for calamitous urban decline.
  • (5) Up to 15 Tory MPs, including the father of the house of commons Sir Peter Tapsell, spoke in support of Mitchell who was seen to cut a forlorn figure when he took his traditional place close to Cameron for the first session of prime minister's questions since he swore at police.
  • (6) Diego Forlan would have been forlorn to see his shot miss the target.
  • (7) He and Michael Bradley, in an advanced midfield role, found neat touches and space to trouble the Turkish defence and bring Jozy Altidore into the game as something other than the forlorn lone striker he can be in a 4-2-3-1.
  • (8) Perched in a grove of poplars and with prayer flags stretching away on all sides, Muktinath is Nepal's second-most sacred site for Hindus after Pashupatinath , which in comparison lies rather forlornly at the end of Kathmandu's international airport runway.
  • (9) Trump and Ryan could turn to the Democrats for support but the president is such a polarising figure that this seems a forlorn hope.
  • (10) The latest piece, by Turner-nominated sculptor and installation artists Cornelia Parker, is a mocked-up photo showing Gormley's famous Angel of the North sculpture leaning at a forlorn angle with a symbolically clipped wing.
  • (11) It is somehow forlorn and vulnerable and desperate and defiant all at once.
  • (12) It was a misjudgment in the heat of the moment.” The forlorn-looking Formula One world champion muttered: “I can’t really express the way I’m feeling at the moment so I won’t attempt to.
  • (13) Nadal simply had no answer to Murray’s variety and consistency, cutting an increasingly forlorn figure as he was repeatedly subjected to the rare indignity of being outrallied and out-thought from the back of the court.
  • (14) There they will be, shivering on the windy platforms of Leuchars-for-St-Andrews, standing forlornly below the train indicator at Euston, holding paper napkins filled with dripping pizzas in Leeds.
  • (15) There are elements of Andrei Tarkovsky movies – a forlorn wasteland littered with high-tech wreckage.
  • (16) I was in Peterborough recently, and the mood of dejection was so strong as to feel contagious, crystallised by the obligatory empty shops, forlorn young people looking for dependable work that never comes, and the issue of immigration becoming more divisive than ever.
  • (17) It sits, forlorn, in a moat of open space, like a lone domino.
  • (18) Back in Whitstable the kite-surfers were having a ball, leaping high above the sea in the strong gusts of wind, their acrobatics watched forlornly by the seagulls, waiting to scavenge discarded chip wrappers that would never come.
  • (19) A rather forlorn-looking cup of tepid water into which the bag has yet to be introduced.
  • (20) Nor on the forlorn hope that punishing the Russian leadership, still less the Russian people, with sanctions could cause the Crimean annexation to be reversed; it will not be.

Loneliness


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.
  • (n.) The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road.
  • (n.) Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.
  • (n.) A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
  • (2) I used it primarily as a social lubricant but also to alleviate boredom, stress and loneliness.
  • (3) Symptom prevalence was associated with anxiety, negative relations with parents, modest plans for education, fear of the future, loneliness, smoking, and drinking.
  • (4) a person who experienced loneliness did usually not feel completely healthy.
  • (5) Other factors such as gender, marital status and the presence of children, relatives and friends in the neighbourhood had no association with loneliness.
  • (6) A median split on the UCLA Loneliness Scale divided subjects into high- and low-scoring loneliness groups.
  • (7) The epidemic of loneliness and isolation that is spreading through the older population is not confined to people waiting at home for the next visit from a homecare worker, but can be just as acute for the older person waiting in their care home room for the weekly visit from relatives, or even just from a staff member, as was distressingly illustrated by another Panorama exposé this week.
  • (8) The group differences and the varying patterns of correlations support the use of a multidimensional approach to the study of loneliness.
  • (9) The purpose of this study was to analyze differences in future time perspective, loneliness and perceived maternal expressiveness between adolescents who were chronically ill with cystic fibrosis and adolescents who were reportedly healthy.
  • (10) Loneliness and sociocultural isolation appeared to accelerate the rate at which the average "traveler" moved from nonaddictive use to addiction.
  • (11) Both groups completed two self-concept questionnaires, a loneliness scale, and a measure of their social relationships outside of school.
  • (12) Suggestions were made for future research on loneliness in school settings.
  • (13) Such schemes can help people of any age to develop self-acceptance, making it easier for them to relate to others and connect on such a level that loneliness, if not eradicated, at least becomes less of a threat to health.
  • (14) Loneliness (alpha = .885), higher for males than for females, was significantly correlated with various aspects of their high-school lives.
  • (15) To non-artists, there may not seem to be anything original or provocative about love, death, loneliness or cheese, either – yet gosh-darned artists keep finding new ways for humanity to look at them.
  • (16) Using hierarchical analysis of sets, the results indicated that the set of variables used to test the situational theory explained more variance in loneliness when entered first (62%) or second (34%) in the analysis than did the characterological set when entered first (33%) or second (5%) in the analysis.
  • (17) 'He was like me - desperate for ways to overcome his loneliness.'
  • (18) Social factors that can greatly reduce an elderly person's interest in food include loneliness, depression, isolation, and self-consciousness because of hearing and visual impairments.
  • (19) The charity network Acevo, which set up The Loneliness Project last year to tackle social isolation among young people in London, today publishes a report which suggests young Londoners are twice as likely to be lonely as their counterparts elsewhere in the country.
  • (20) In the thrall of social media and smartphones, we are drip-fed a steady supply of Instagram-filtered intimacy – and in this world, negative emotions and loneliness are taboo.

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