寂(さび)しさ

Forms

寂(さび)しい (lonely) + さ (nominalizing suffix).

Common collocations

• 寂(さび)しさを感(かん)じる (to feel loneliness)
• 寂(さび)しさに耐(た)える (to endure loneliness)
• 寂(さび)しさを紛(まぎ)らわす (to distract oneself from loneliness)
• 寂(さび)しさを埋(う)める (to fill the emptiness)

Writing

Also written 淋(さび)しさ, and often pronounced さみしさ in speech; the meaning is the same.

Similar words

• 孤独(こどく): the state of being alone, a fact that need not be felt as sad; 寂(さび)しさ is the feeling
• 切(せつ)なさ: an aching, bittersweet sadness, often about love or something lost
• 虚(むな)しさ: emptiness, a sense that things are pointless

Related words

• 寂(さび)しい (lonely)
• 孤独感(こどくかん) (feeling of isolation)
• 郷愁(きょうしゅう) (nostalgia, homesickness)