(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.
Loveliness
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being lovely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Melanie Wilson and Abigail Conway return with their cinema experience Every Minute Always and Coney offers the experience of The Loveliness Principle.
(2) Its villages, many of which are miles from any road, look like they’ve been painted by a 19th century Romantic artist whose vision was blurred by the tears in his eyes at the sheer loveliness of the scene.
(3) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian The point of this area of Dorset is its peerless loveliness.
(4) I have lived in the middle of the carnival route for 12 years now and going by my wholly unscientific observation, the carnival is one of the lovelier forms of cultural cross-pollination.
(5) Yet something we were acutely aware of was the individuals that made up the company, and I don't think I've met a lovelier bunch of people.
(6) "I met George on and off down the years and you couldn't meet a lovelier person.
(7) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
(8) We've also had Janet Street-Porter hiking up and down the land, wondering aloud, in a more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger, godmotherish sort of way, why anyone would want to uncouple themself from the loveliness of the union.
(9) Tavira is slightly the victim of its own elegant loveliness: eating places abound, as do visitors.
(10) Wayne Koestenbaum explains in his book The Queen’s Throat how he loves Maria Callas above all because she made mistakes and “seemed to value expressivity over loveliness”.
(11) This is the English countryside in all its May-time loveliness – which the viewer actually watches months later, as they contemplate damp September – to be admired through lovingly filmed heads of cow parsley nodding under the weight of spring raindrops, or via long shots of fields of buttercups.
(12) "He's still a cheeky little sod, but he's definitely just a nicer, lovelier little boy and we're not walking on eggshells with him any more," says Michelle.
(13) Nowhere is this lovelier than the Paseo del Río (River Walk), cobble and flagstone paths that extend for 21 blocks (almost three miles) along the San Antonio river.
(14) 01492 818198, spaceboutique.co.uk ENGLAND Pier Hotel, Harwich, Essex You couldn't get a better picture of marine loveliness than the white and blue facade of this quayside hotel, built in the 1850s.
(15) It is scrawly coloured pencil drawings, funny questions, tousled hair and the loveliness of a sleeping toddler.
(16) 4: A final celebration of nature The loveliness of the trees and grass, the sky's blue clouds, give reality to a mythological scene.
(17) Stars with style Brad Pitt Born Shawnee, Oklahoma, US Age 41 Career highlights Johnny Suede, Fight Club, Ocean's 11 Career lowlights Seven Years in Tibet, Meet Joe Black Why he matters 'He combines the matinee idol looks of Gary Cooper with the sex symbol loveliness of Marilyn Monroe' Frank Gehry Born Toronto, Canada Age 76 Career highlights Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Walt Disney concert hall, Los Angeles Career lowlights Experience Music Project, Seattle Why he matters 'One of the most prominent contemporary American architects with his open, curvilinear, diverse and sometimes playful west coast style'.
(18) I hope I will do at some point.” This moment of reflection is all the lovelier for being entirely unsolicited.
(19) Mr Macron’s speech was full of French pride, with successive appeals to France’s scenic loveliness, great history and human achievements.
(20) We'd be completely astounded, but somehow the beauty of the moment would surpass even the loveliness of where we were and what we were doing."