[huck_cussler]

I would argue that what you describe as loneliness is not loneliness, but being content to be alone.

[bagelwhiteoff]

I found out that my first language apparently doesn't make a distinction of it. I tried to find synonyms, but none was able to grasp such difference. That's fascinating.

[mirimir]

So your first language doesn't distinguish between "being alone" and "loneliness"? What is the word, if I may ask? Or at least, what is the emotional tone? Is it neutral, or negative?

[FilterSweep]

I would agree with you, but [parent] touched on the media, and general American public perception that people simply cannot be content in being alone. Not only that, but they also conflate introversion with preferring solitude (not always true), or even worse, social ineptitude (even rarer).

I've also noticed that some of my friends who did just like being alone ran into most of their grief trying to reconcile this, as opposed to grieving being alone.

[icebraining]

Yeah, not all solitude is lonely.