• Cultural loneliness: This is where a person belongs to a different culture and feels that they don’t fit, or belong, in the new culture.
  • Existential or cosmic loneliness: This is an isolating loneliness experienced by a person who is facing death.
  • Intellectual loneliness: This is where a person feels intellectually, or educationally, out of synch with their peers, their family or their social group.
  • Interpersonal loneliness: This is the result of losing a significant, or intimate, relationship.
  • Psychological loneliness: This is where a person has experienced a trauma that separates them out from others around them. That is, it’s something other people can’t fully understand.
  • Social loneliness: This is where a person is on the fringes of a group, excluded from a group, or is actively rejected.
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