2006-11-19 04:19:19 · 5 answers · asked by Ω Nookey™ 7 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Loneliness is an emotional state in which a person experiences a powerful feeling of emptiness and isolation. Loneliness is more than just the feeling of wanting company or wanting to do something with another person. Loneliness is a feeling of being cut off, disconnected, and/or alienated from other people, so that it feels difficult or even impossible to have any form of meaningful human contact. Lonely people often feel empty or hollow inside. Feelings of separation or isolation from the world are common amongst those that are lonely. The first record of the word "lonely" being used was in a play by William Shakespeare.
Loneliness should not be equated with being alone. Everyone has times when they are alone for situational reasons, or because they have chosen to be alone. Being alone can be experienced as positive, pleasurable, and emotionally refreshing if it is under the individual's control. Solitude is the state of being alone and secluded from other people, and often implies having made a conscious choice to be alone. Loneliness is therefore unwilling solitude.
2006-11-19 05:19:18 · answer #1 · answered by Fraj 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its best found in a song. Never Knew Lonely, by Vince Gill!
2006-11-19 10:37:33 · answer #2 · answered by mr me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When your with somebody who U know is never going to be with you!!!
2006-11-19 04:36:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you feel it .when you are around the people but yet you feel you have noone to share your beliefs and thoughts with.
2006-11-19 04:26:43 · answer #4 · answered by Creative 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no meaning.
2006-11-19 04:22:26 · answer #5 · answered by docie555@yahoo.com 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋