[snozolli]

Definition 1 is wildly inaccurate.

Even if we take it as valid, how are you going to communicate who you are to others who aren't equipped to understand? As an extreme example, consider being dropped into another nation where they speak a language you have no knowledge of. Without shared language and culture, you can't hope to be understood.

Doesn't mean you can't be surrounded by helpful, caring people (friends?), though, which is why this argument is completely flawed from the get-go.

[Extropy_]

  Consider being dropped into another nation where they speak a language you have no knowledge of. Without shared language and culture, you can't hope to be understood.

  Doesn't mean you can't be surrounded by helpful, caring people (friends?), though, which is why this argument is completely flawed

Upon considering the scenario you described, my first thoughts were on how lonely an experience that would be. Also, helpful and caring people that don't understand what's wrong can't provide very effective support.

[snozolli]

Upon considering the scenario you described, my first thoughts were on how lonely an experience that would be.

That's the point. You can't be understood to a gratifying degree by people who don't share your culture, and simple words aren't going to fix the disconnect.

helpful and caring people that don't understand what's wrong can't provide very effective support.

If you saw someone from another country looking starved and miserable, you couldn't buy them food and direct them to shelter?

Loneliness means anything from not having enough people to chat with today to not having a soulmate who understands and affirms your every view.