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- uncountableA tendency for excessive solitary behavior.
Yet even in this personal agonising, I fought shy of anything that smacked of fanatical lonerism.
1984, Ciaran McKeown, The Passion of Peace, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, →ISBN, page 2682 more examples
People really do need people, but the loner does not believe this. Loners spend most or all of their time by themselves, like a person with a “Do Not Disturb” sign around his or her neck, and become annoyed or even anxious if they are forced to endure the company of other people. Some of the major causes of lonerism have already been discussed, as in the case of Roy.
1976, Robert B. Ewen, Getting it Together: A Guide to Modern Psychological Analysis, New York; London: Franklin Watts, →ISBN, page 63As long as someone who can help me troubleshoot is within actual or virtual reach I will be more successful than if I engage in lonerism, trying to figure it all out by myself.
1999, Barbara Lyman, “Internet-based Learning: What's in It for the Adult Learner?”, in Deanie French, Charles Hale, Charles Johnson, Gerald Farr, editors, Internet Based Learning: An Introduction and Framework for Higher Education and Business, London: Kogan Page, →ISBN, page 101
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