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Another word for loneliness

loneliness Synonyms

loneliness

n.

lonesomeness, solitude, detachment, separation, desolation, aloneness, solitariness, desertedness, forlornness; see also homesickness, isolation.

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Another word for loneliness

noun

The quality or state of being alone:

aloneness, isolation, singleness, solitariness, solitude. See include

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A wave of loneliness washed over her.
She felt a deep sense of loneliness and longing.
Maybe it was the fact that he never smiled, or the loneliness in those green eyes.
The loneliness drove her mad.
The loneliness of a queen who had no husband or children and no relatives to mention must at all times have been oppressive; it grew desolating in old age after the deaths of Leicester, Walsingham, Burghley and Essex, and Elizabeth died, the last of her race, on the 24th of March 1603.

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