Post #2439097
2026-04-12 07:50 UTC
The Finnish language doesn't make a difference between "solitude" and "loneliness", which is funny to me because we're like, the people who invented enjoying being alone :P And it's a pretty limiting omission - having spent the vast majority of my adult life alone and continuing to do so for the foreseeable future, I know very well how wide the spectrum between healing solitude and crushing loneliness is, but both are just the negatively charged "yksinäisyys" in Finnish
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@georgek@mastodon.green 2026-04-12 08:53
@molentum@mastoart.social funny that, in Hungarian there are three words one can use, to translate loneliness. Of course all of them with negative connotations. As for solitude? The exact same words. Ie.: there is no room given in the language for the positive aspect of solitude.