What is the difference between isolation and loneliness?

Isolation is a state of feeling alone without any friends or help. Loneliness is unhappiness caused by not having anyone to talk to or having no friends.

Loneliness is when you want to be with others but have no option and isolation is when you choose to not to be others.

Isolation is a choice of people concerned, friends, classmates, society, coworkers, family and other groups you do belong. While loneliness is the feeling of an individual like the person can never relate to someone whether alone or with someone.

Loneliness is feeling actual hurt from being alone... Isolation can be a self-imposed choice...for times of meditation, quiet reflection or thinking.

Isolation is when you are either isolated or isolate yourself from your surroundings.. you are forbid or restrict yourself to explore all around you.. you can't experience things even if you wanted to.. While loneliness means, you can (and not forbid) explore your surroundings (like eg. Make friends, go to school, socializing) but just still felt lonely.. you felt like you're alone all the time.

While these two words can be synonyms, generally, the difference between them is this: isolation is a state of being, while loneliness is a feeling. You can be isolated from other people by a situation or circumstance—a busy job, an illness that keeps you housebound, a demanding partner, a move to a new city, etc. You can feel lonely when you're not feeling loved or supported, which can be in a state of total isolation or when you're surrounded by people but don't feel connected to them for whatever reason. Often, loneliness and isolation have a lot of overlap, but it's important to identify how they're affecting you specifically.

Isolation is a self-inflicted process of removing oneself from social interaction while loneliness is a feeling caused by multiple factors.

Loneliness is feeling that nobody understands you and that you are alone WHEN you are surrounded by people. Isolation is to stay alone, and avoid meeting and talking to other people.

Isolation is something that happens when you want to be alone and you alienate yourself from others. Loneliness is when you're alone, or you feel alone, because nobody's around, or maybe you've lost people that will never come back in your life, and that makes you feel like there's no one around you in this world. Isolation is something you do yourself, from my personal experience, after you've been abandoned by someone you cared about a lot. There are other reasons why you could isolate yourself: maybe you just want/need to be alone, maybe someone has disappointed you so much you don't want other people to do so, or maybe you're just having a bad moment and you require being alone. Otherwise, you could suffer from the "Hedgehog Dilemma". By this, I mean that you're like a hedgehog, you have needles (sadness, emptiness, bad behavior or anything else you don't like about yourself) and you're scared you could hurt yourself and/or other people with them. So, since you're scared of hurting and/or being hurt, you prefer to alienate yourself and be alone. But worry not! Remember that isolating yourself for short periods of time could really help you if you're going through a lot, but never think that you're alone and nobody's there to help you. In your city, between your relatives, on this site, around the world... there will always be someone willing to talk to you and help you feel loved and appreciated, because that's what you deserve.

loneliness is when you have everyone around you but you yourself are feeling empty and broken. Isolation is when you want to be away from other people and make a barrier because of that.