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| Main Entry: | loneliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | isolation |
| Synonyms: | alienation, desolation, heartache, seclusion, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, forlornness, friendlessness, lonesomeness, remoteness, solitariness |
| Main Entry: | solitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aloneness |
| Synonyms: | confinement, desert, detachment, emptiness, isolation, loneliness, privacy, quarantine, seclusion, silence, waste, wasteland, wilderness, withdrawal, loneness, lonesomeness, peace and quiet, reclusiveness, retirement, separateness, solitariness |
| Antonyms: | companionship, friendship, togetherness |
| Main Entry: | homesickness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nostalgia |
| Synonyms: | alienation, isolation, loneliness, longing, unhappiness, rootlessness, yearning for home |
| Main Entry: | desolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uninhabitated area; barrenness |
| Synonyms: | bareness, desert, devastation, dissolution, extinction, isolation, loneliness, ruin, solitude, waste, wreck, bleakness, forlornness, solitariness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | civilization |
| Main Entry: | desolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distress, unhappiness |
| Synonyms: | anguish, dejection, despair, gloom, loneliness, melancholy, misery, mourning, sadness, sorrow, woe, wretchedness, gloominess |
| Antonyms: | cheer, comfort, happiness, joy |
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