love-lornness
Definition
- Noun:
- The state of being forsaken or pining due to unrequited or lost love: "love-lornness" refers to the emotional condition of sorrow, melancholy, or desolation experienced when one is unloved, abandoned by a lover, or suffering from romantic disappointment.
Usage Examples
- (She felt deep sadness because her love was not returned or had ended.)
- (The poems expressed sorrow from being unloved or abandoned.)
Advanced Usage
- "to suffer from love-lornness": to experience the emotional distress of unrequited or lost love.
- After the breakup, he suffered from love-lornness for months. (He felt prolonged sadness due to the end of the romance.)
Variants and Related Words
- Love-lorn (adj): feeling or showing sadness because one's love is not returned or has been lost.
- The love-lorn suitor wrote a letter to his distant beloved. (The suitor was sad because his love was unreturned.)
Synonyms
- Heartache: emotional pain or distress caused by love-related disappointment.
- Lovesickness: the feeling of being ill or distressed from longing for someone.
- Pining: a deep, often sorrowful longing for a lost or absent lover.
Related Idioms
- To be lovelorn: to be sad or depressed because of unrequited love.
- He was lovelorn after his crush ignored him. (He felt sorrowful due to romantic rejection.)