English-Portuguese translations for loneliness

• solidão
  A solidão e a invisibilidade próprias dos apostadores caracterizam uma dependência geralmente inaceitável. The loneliness and the basic invisibility of gamblers characterise a generally unacceptable addiction.
  Os telemóveis e o progresso também podem servir para arrancar os idosos à solidão. Even mobile phones and progress can serve to take away some of the loneliness from the lives of elderly people.
  Tomam conta de idosos e doentes, aliviando o seu sofrimento e a sua solidão, e não têm qualquer segurança. They work as carers, alleviating the suffering and the loneliness of the elderly and the sick, and they do not have any security.

Definition of loneliness

• A feeling of depression resulting from being alone or from having no companions
• The condition or state of being alone or having no companions
• The state of being unfrequented or devoid of human activity (''of a place or time''
• A desire to be alone; disposition to solitude

Related words

• lonely
• colonel
• colonel-general
• lonelily
• colonel general
• lonely hearts agency
• lonely hearts club
• lieutenant colonel
• solitude loneliness