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Loneliness that redecorated and moved in permanently.
means A state of complete emptiness or ruin — a place or feeling stripped bare of comfort, life, or hope.
from From Latin desolare, 'to abandon utterly' — de- (thoroughly) plus solus, 'alone.' The same solus that gives us 'solo' and 'solitary.' So desolation isn't just absence; it's the Latin insistence that the aloneness is total, deliberate, finished — nothing left to call back.
- etymology
- from latin desolare, to abandon utterly
- landscape vs feeling
- describes empty places and empty people identically
- peak level
- beyond sad, past lonely, where silence gets loud
- poetic favorite
- romantic poets used it more than the word love