What is the difference between being bored and being lonely?

Question

It seems like there should be some way to know.

Answer 1

Being bored is having nothing to occupy ones self with & being lonely is having no one around you to talk or hang out with.

Answer 2

being bored is like a hunger to occupy your mind , loneliness is the need of personal attention

Answer 3

The usual definition is:  Loneliness is experienced in isolation while boredom occurs with activities swirling around one.

The line dividing the two is very fine but may be better defined with the use of a psychological component.  Loneliness has an  emotive component, but boredom does not.  Boredom is not emotional.

Answer 4

Being bored means you have nothing to do, being lonely means you have no one to talk to.

Answer 5

When you're bored, you want something interesting to happen, you have nothing to do. When you're lonely it's completely different because loneliness is a kind of sadness, sometimes you'll feel unwanted and invisible, you just long to be wanted by people around you.

Answer 6

Being bored is choosing not to do anything.  Being lonely is not always by choice.

Answer 7

I think being bored means you have nothing to do, or there is nothing to do that interests you, being lonely means you have no one to do anything with.