- 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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