different between quietude vs loneliness

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French quiétude, from Late Latin qui?t?d?, from Latin qui?tus, perfect passive participle of qui?sc? (“rest”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kw? ' ? - to?od, -tyo?od

Noun

quietude (usually uncountable, plural quietudes)

1. tranquility

Synonyms

• (tranquility): peace, serenity, tranquility

Related terms

• quiet
• quietness

Translations

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin qui?t?d?, from Latin qui?tus, perfect passive participle of qui?sc? (“rest”).

Noun

quietude f (uncountable)

1. quietude, tranquility

Synonyms

• (quietude): calma, paz, serenidade, sosego, tranquilidade

Antonyms

• (quietude): axitación, desasosego, inquietude

Related terms

• quieto

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin qui?t?d?, from Latin qui?tus, perfect passive participle of qui?sc? (“rest”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ud?i

Noun

quietude f (plural quietudes)

1. quiet (absence of movement or sound)

Related terms

• quieto

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

Translations