Boredom vs. Loneliness — What's the Difference?

In conventional usage, boredom is an emotional and occasionally psychological state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, is not interested in their surroundings, or feels that a day or period is dull or tedious. It is also understood by scholars as a modern phenomenon which has a cultural dimension.

Loneliness is an unpleasant emotional response to perceived isolation. Loneliness is also described as social pain—a psychological mechanism which motivates individuals to seek social connections.

The condition of being bored; ennui.

Dejected by the awareness of being alone.

(uncountable) The state of being bored.

Producing such dejection

(countable) An instance or period of being bored; A bored state.

Without others of a similar kind; lone; solitary

The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.

Unfrequented by people; desolate

The realm of bores; bores, collectively.

A feeling of depression resulting from being alone or from having no companions.

The feeling of being bored by something tedious

The condition or state of being alone or having no companions.

The state of being unfrequented or devoid of human activity (of a place or time).

(obsolete) A desire to be alone; disposition to solitude.

The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.

The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road.

Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.

A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.

The state of being alone in solitary isolation

Sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned

A disposition toward being alone