different between aline vs loneliness

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??la?n/, /æ?la?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

From a- +? line, possibly from Middle English alinen (“copulate”), Middle French aligner.

Verb

aline (third-person singular simple present alines, present participle alining, simple past and past participle alined)

1. Obsolete form of align. or misspelling

Etymology 2

From Middle English aline (“in line”)

Adverb

aline (comparative more aline, superlative most aline)

1. In line

Derived terms

• alinement

Anagrams

• Elain, Elian, Elina, Nelia, alien, anile, elain, laine, liane, linea

Middle English

Etymology

a- +? line.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?li?n(?)/

Adverb

aline

1. In (a straight) line.
   • c. 1400, Chaucer

References

• “al?ne, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a?line]

Verb

aline

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of alina
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of alina

English

Etymology

lonely +? -ness

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?lo?nlin?s/

Noun

loneliness (countable and uncountable, plural lonelinesses)

1. A feeling of depression resulting from being alone or from having no companions.
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne et al., Volume 5, Book 10, Chapter 5, p. 274,^[1]

     Cecilia proposed to her the society of Henrietta, which, glad to catch at any thing that would break into her loneliness, she listened to with pleasure […]

   • 1948, Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, Chapter 21, p. 154,^[2]

     We […] feel deep pity for a man who is condemned to the loneliness of being remarkable […]

   • 1997, Bob Dylan, “Marchin’ to the City,” The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006,^[3]

     Loneliness got a mind of its own

     The more people around, the more you feel alone

2. The condition or state of being alone or having no companions.
   • 1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon, p. 7,^[4]

     Hitherto all things that have bin nam’d, were approv’d of God to be very good: lonelines is the first thing which Gods eye nam’d not good […]

   • 1657, Richard Ligon, A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados, London: Humphrey Moseley, Dedicatory letter to the Bishop of Salisbury,^[5]

     [I] was designing a piece of Landscape […] wherein I meant to expresse […] the beauties of the Vegetables, that do adorn that place, in the highest perfection I could: But presently after, being cast into Prison, I was deprived both of light and lonelinesse, two main helpers in that Art […]

   • 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, London: Richard Bentley, Volume I, Chapter 2, p. 20,^[6]

     Wretched as were the little companions in misery he was leaving behind, they were the only friends he had ever known; and a sense of his loneliness in the great wide world sank into the child’s heart for the first time.

3. The state of being unfrequented or devoid of human activity (of a place or time).
   • 1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, London: G.G. & J. Robinson, Volume 4, Chapter 3, p. 50,^[7]

     […] as she sat at her bed-side, indulging melancholy reveries, which the loneliness of the hour assisted […]

   • 1877, Mayne Reid, Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye, London: Tinsley Bros., Volume 3, Chapter 4, p. 34,^[8]

     In addition, the very loneliness of the road had its charm for him; since only at rare intervals is house seen by its side, and rarer still living creature encountered upon it.

   • 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, New York: Scholastic, 1987, Chapter 5, pp. 57-58,^[9]

     The rest was all flat marsh. It would have been a depressing place on a wet evening. Seen under a morning sun, with a fresh wind blowing, and the air filled with the crying of birds, there was something fine and fresh and clean about its loneliness.

4. (obsolete) A desire to be alone; disposition to solitude.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene 3,^[10]

     […] I see

     The mystery of your loneliness, and find

     Your salt tears’ head: now to all sense ’tis gross

     You love my son […]

Synonyms

• (depression resulting from being alone): lonesomeness
• (condition of being alone): aloneness, friendlessness, seclusion, solitariness, solitude

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