noun
- The state of being alone in solitary isolation.
- synonyms: solitariness
- Sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned.
- synonyms: forlornness, desolation
- A disposition toward being alone.
- synonyms: aloneness, lonesomeness, solitariness
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