can anyon define loneliness?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Lonliness:

Loss of any state of happiness all around,
Only you a friend inside can be found,
Nothing to do, no one to speak to love not spoken,
Letting your heart break in despair for your feelings are broken
Ever so dearly there is no such luck not a token,
Inside the heart hurts of wanting of a friend,
Not only a tear is shed on the bed but they seem not to end,
Everyone seems to be your enemy and foe,
Someone to hold you and to let you know,
Sitting in your mind is this thought and your sadness does grow.

Answer 3

Loneliness is a time when a person feels a sense of sadness and longing that isn't fulfilled.

Answer 4

Loneliness means free from worldly thoughts. The first stage of meditation and mental peace.

Answer 5

loneliness can be a good way to explore yourself and understand who you really are. Sometimes we need that. My definition of loneliness would be - a temporary break from the influence of others.

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Answer 6

loneliness is when everybody is around but no one right by your side. when you are trying to fill your time with meaningless activities just to lose the sense of time. loneliness is when you can see the happiness but you can't reach it.

Answer 7

The empty feeling you get most often when you are alone. But you can also feel this sadness when you are with people. It comes from being emotionally attached to nothing. Like not being with someone when you desire that kind of love.

Answer 8

According to the Existentialist, a human being's existence is a lonely existence. At the end of the day, we are all alone. Can anyone ever truly understand what it is to be you, to experience all the things you have experienced, to understand your joys and happiness, your pains and sorrows? Surely we can talk to other people about how we feel, we can draw pictures, we can play music, but all this attempt to communicate ultimately leaves something behind. We cannot always get our feelings, ideas or experiences across exactly. There is a painful reality that ultimately we are alone, by ourselves, and ultimately lonely.

Some people are better at alleviating their loneliness than other people, at hiding their monadic existence than others. For them, loneliness is a fleeting feeling that visits them on cold winter days or cold gloomy rainy days when human contact becomes minimal and they are left only with the thoughts in their heads. For others, loneliness is a curse, a shadow that follows them all the time, that rears its ugly head at every human contact, that surrounds them in their waking and in their dreams.

Whether we would like to agree with it or not, loneliness is a universal phenomenon, it visits every human soul at some time in every culture, every race, every class, every age, and at all times in human history. It is inescapable, and has been expressed throughout the ages in music, literature and art. To feel lonely is to join the rest of humanity in acknowledging that we are somehow fundamentally separated from each other, doomed to speak and yet never fully understood. Not only is loneliness so pervasive, but it has been associated with a variety of different emotions. People who feel lonely describe it as painful, and it is associated very strongly with feelings of depression, suicide, low self-esteem and aggression. Being lonely for too long may not be a good thing. And while we suffer a monadic existence, we are social animals, needing each other, to bond, to connect, to love. It is the paradox of human existence to seek to fill a need that can never be satisfied, to fill the vortex of loneliness in our lives.

So what is loneliness? Is it a feeling? A condition? For different people, it means different things. It is hard to describe exactly what it is, or how come we feel this way. Perhaps a better question is "what is loneliness for you?" I invite you to read in the pages ahead about loneliness, its varied forms, its varied causes and the various ways that people cope with loneliness.
It has been hypothesized that there are different types of loneliness, that not everyone suffers from, or experiences loneliness in the same way. Look at the statements below...which of them most applies to you?

Do you know the difference between aloneness and loneliness?

I don't feel lonely very often vs. I feel lonely all the time.

When I think about it, I just don't have enough high quality friendships in my life

I'm a very shy person, I have problems communicating and sharing with others.

Not only am I lonely, I'm also very depressed or angry about the things around me.

You know why I'm lonely, I'm lonely because I don't have that close special someone in my life.


Do you know the difference between aloneness and loneliness?
Yes, believe it or not there is a small but noticeable difference between aloneness and loneliness. To be alone is to by oneself. You may or may not FEEL lonely when you are alone, but the only important condition for being alone is that there is no one else around you. To be lonely, is to suffer the feelings of loneliness, to want people, social contact, and yet be unable to get any. Given this fact, it is quite possible to feel lonely when you are alone, and it is also to feel lonely when you are NOT alone. Many people report feelings of being lonely in a crowd, that even though they are surrounded by people, they still feel lonely. On the other hand, there are those who have written about the virtue of being alone. Hermits, monks and other religious persons treasure their time alone for contemplation and communication with the Higher Powers. Even in our daily lives we should practice spending some time alone, going over the events of the day. Aloneness is both an important and integral part of our lives. So don't get the two mixed up!

You can think of loneliness being experienced on a continuum with two extremes. On one extreme, a person experiences loneliness all the time, as an inescapable part of their existence. On the other extreme is a person who rarely experiences loneliness. If you are the kind of person that rarely experiences loneliness, when you do experience loneliness, we call that type of loneliness state loneliness. This is loneliness that is generated more by the environment than the person. So you probably will experience loneliness only when it's a long rainy day and you have nothing to do, or you go on vacation and you are missing your friends at home or something like it. The loneliness is generated by the circumstance you are in, and usually doesn't last very long (a day, a week). If however, you are the kind of person that experiences loneliness most of the time, then the loneliness you experience we call trait loneliness. This is type of loneliness that follows you everywhere. The loneliness is generated from the person, although particular circumstances might aggravate your experience of loneliness. So regardless of the situation or circumstance, when you think about it, you are still lonely
Some theorists believe that loneliness results of a difference between how much friends you have, and how much friends you want to have. For some people, maybe for you, it's simply that you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. You have friends, yes...maybe, but they aren't really as close as you would like them to be, or maybe you just wish you had more friends. This discrepancy between your desired level and quality of friendship and your actual level can cause your feelings of loneliness. If you think that this is, in part, the root cause of your loneliness, maybe it's time to look for a new avenue for friendship. On the next page I will be talking in more detail about how we deal with feelings of loneliness and what people do to reduce their feelings of loneliness

Answer 9

when youa re surrounded by people, but you are not able to connect with them in thoughts or in words. You seek to be understood but fail to get it in any way be it emotions or thoughts.
You feel "discarded"

Answer 10

where do i start?
1. pity
2. down-heartedness
3. misery
4. social reject
5. being outcast because you don't "fit in"
6. having thoughts and ideas that alienate you for no reason

Answer 11

yes being alone is sollitude based on ones decision
loneliness is based on ones sollitude without decision