(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.
Seclusion
Definition:
(n.) The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results showed that the two groups differed greatly in their attitudes over a wide range of topics; many staff members did not realize how much and in what ways seclusion affects patients.
(2) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
(3) Patients who required seclusion and restraint had significant latitude to determine the timing of their release from the interventions and met with staff one hour and 24 hours after their release to explore alternatives to aggression.
(4) Marked seclusion tendencies in the previous life history, as well as organic brain diseases, are relevant.
(5) Annually thousands of teenage boys from the Xhosa tribe embark on a secretive rite of passage in Eastern Cape province, spending up to a month in seclusion where they study, undergo circumcision by a traditional surgeon, and apply white clay to their bodies.
(6) Patients who scored high in drug use tended to be younger, had more seclusions while on the ward, and had less of a history of drug or alcohol treatment.
(7) To test this hypothesis, coronary and control subjects were submitted to three types of personality questionnaire, each of them measuring the same four personality traits (seclusion, impulsiveness, dependence and passivity) which, in the adult individual, are considered by Murray's (1938) theory of personality as persisting from infancy.
(8) In the late 1960s he went into voluntary seclusion in New Hampshire and there he stayed, a peculiar man attracted to fringe religious movements, warding off interviewers, film people, fans, trespassers.
(9) The victim of a "dual seclusion", he was not only able to make an exhaustive analysis of the situation, but in a certain sense he also succeeded in predicting the tragic events which were taking shape on the historical-political horizon of the world to which he belonged.
(10) The seclusion lasts from several months to three years, with periods of interruption.
(11) Before seclusion most behaviors were disturbed but nonviolent; during seclusion most behaviors were nondisturbed.
(12) The author speculates that the use of seclusion on the crisis unit is related to the characteristics of the patient population as well as to the short duration of patient stay.
(13) On Sunday Choi returned home from seclusion in Germany.
(14) From 1978 to 1985, 133 boys between the ages of 11 and 20 years were observed in seclusion.
(15) But such ideas need to break out of the seclusion of the seminar room, and be thrashed out on the political stage.
(16) The purpose of this descriptive study was to identify unit environmental factors at the initiation of seclusion, and patient behavior and nursing interventions throughout seclusion.
(17) Seclusion was used in the management of 36.6% of the patients on a general hospital psychiatric unit during a 6 month prospective study.
(18) And so Ségolène Royal, the former presidential candidate – who failed to become leader of the Socialists, was trounced in her attempt to become the party's 2012 presidential candidate and failed to gain a seat in parliament at the last election – emerged last week from almost a year of seclusion to publicise her new book (and let it be known she is looking for a government job).
(19) Debriefing may be one of the most important ways that staff can help the patient in diminishing the emotional impact of seclusion.
(20) Overall, New York City and large-town hospitals had the highest rates of seclusion and restraint, but analysis by age group showed that New York City had the lowest rate for patients under age 35, who constituted the majority of patients who were secluded or restrained, and large towns had the highest rate.