sự lòng

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Definition

1. Noun:
   • One's innermost feelings or sentiments: This term refers to personal, private emotions or thoughts that are deeply held and not easily shared. It carries a somewhat literary or archaic tone.
   • The state of one's heart or mind: It denotes the intimate, internal emotional landscape of a person.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Sự lòng của cô ấy rất phức tạp. (Her innermost feelings are very complex.)
  • Anh ấy giữ kín sự lòng mình. (He keeps his intimate sentiments to himself.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in formal, poetic, or older literary contexts to express profound personal emotion. It is less common in everyday modern speech.
  • Thơ ca thường diễn tả sự lòng của tác giả. (Poetry often expresses the author's innermost sentiments.)

Variants and Related Words

• Lòng dạ (n): one's heart and mind; one's inner thoughts and intentions.

  • Lòng dạ của hắn thật khó lường. (His inner thoughts are truly unpredictable.)

• Tâm tư (n): thoughts and feelings; state of mind.

  • Cô ấy bộc bạch tâm tư của mình. (She confided her thoughts and feelings.)

Synonyms

• Sentiments: attitudes or feelings toward something.
• Innermost feelings: one's most private emotions.
• Heart: the emotional or moral core of a person.

Related Idioms

• Sự lòng biết ngỏ cùng ai: (Literary) To not know to whom one can confide one's intimate feelings; to have no one to turn to.
  • Trong cơn hoạn nạn, sự lòng biết ngỏ cùng ai. (In times of trouble, I have no one to confide my feelings in.)