Solitude, Isolation and Loneliness Solitude, isolation, and loneliness are enormously powerful and most often overwhelming feelings. They possess the ability to cause great pain and suffering or personal triumph. Solitude is defined as “the state of being solitary, or alone; seclusion, isolation, or remoteness,” and listed as a synonym is isolation (Webster’s`.). Loneliness means to be alone or solitary, to stand apart from others, isolated (Webster’s). Solitude, isolation, and loneliness seem, on the …showed first 75 words of 512 total…

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