Loneliness vs. Loneness — What's the Difference?

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 state of being alone; loneliness, solitariness.

Dejected by the awareness of being alone.

Solitude; seclusion.

Producing such dejection

Without others of a similar kind; lone; solitary

Unfrequented by people; desolate

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

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