What is your meaning of "feel lonely"?

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I never feel lonely, as a child I preferred to do everything alone, nothing has changed. I am so used to my own company that it just feels normal.

In the back of my mind I do wish to be able to connect with someone who shares my interests, that would be neat.

I recently discovered that I was confusing loneliness with boredom. I felt bored but I was thinking this is because I am lonely.
Now I know the difference and company of other people is not the cure for boredom.

For me, being lonely is less frequently a state in which I am physically alone and want company, and more a feeling that I'm alone in my emotions, understanding and interests because I'm autistic and those around me aren't. Tonight for instance, I explained to my mom how annoying I found it when people asked about my day because it's stupid when my day was exactly like the day before it and the day before it, and I wish people wouldn't ask because if I have something important to share, I'll just share it. Instead of being understanding and saying "Okay, I won't ask anymore," she got mad and said I was being rude, because people ask that to be polite and to show they care about me. Well they could show they care equally by acknowledging the fact that I find it a stupid question that wastes a lot of time and not asking me it, if it means that much to them it's not like I'm going to stop asking them how their day was, even though I know the answer and really don't care. It's social misunderstandings like these that make me feel very alone and very lonely, not to mention frustrated with myself and the people around me. Most days I love being different, but sometimes it's nothing but a burden.

Being in a public place, surrounded by people that are mindless sheep with no compassion.

For me, "feel lonely" means having no one to share my interests with (I had periods where it happened and I felt very depressed because of that).
I can also "feel lonely" surrounded by people, as if I was lost in an unknown place, hearing the voices of people talking but nothing is clear, not knowing where to go, what to focus on (kind of).

“And it's not "clever lonely" (like Morrissey) or "interesting lonely" (like Radiohead), it's "lonely, lonely" like the way it feels when you’re being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.” -Chuck Klosterman

I feel like a lot of our lives we're just trying to ward off that feeling of loneliness, that feeling that no matter how close we are to others, we're subconsciously aware of the distance that separates us from one another.

I do not know what "feeling lonely" is like. Even when I need to talk to someone else to keep myself from going completely adrift while suffering from anxiety attacks or depression, it's not out of loneliness, but understanding that as much as I prefer to be alone, I do need human contact in order to continue functioning, at least when in some emotional states.

But ever feeling like I need to have someone else with me? No. I prefer to spend my time alone.

I never feel lonely. I have had no human contact for 4 days before and I was happy with my textbooks to read, my music to listen to, and my laptop to make my game and program on it.

My definition of "being lonely" is the desire to interacting and socialize with people, but those people do everything in their power to avoid contact with you permanently. They don't find you interesting, physically attractive, or polite. As a result, you feel angry and sad deep inside and cry about it.

This is a hard question, it's not something i ever gave much thought too. What does "feeling lonely" mean to me....
The past 5 years my gf and i have lived together and have only spent one night apart.
So i don't feel alone.

If i go back to prior to meeting her there was so many times i preferred to be alone and i would isolate myself in my house and room.
To the extreme of sleeping during the day and up at night when everyone else was asleep.
There was many times i preferred to not interact with humans.
Yet these isolations i had put myself through would eventually take its toll on me after several months sometimes i'd start to lose it.
So one time i went to Gamestop and got a game. I had a short talk to the salesclerk that seemed to cure my "cabin fever".

Yet i hesitate to call it feeling lonely it almost seemed like an human interaction (however short) was needed for me to continue my isolation of myself.
It's something i've done in cycles.

Feeling lonely to me i think of depression it makes me think of being sad or depression. It's likely at one point i missed someone and felt sad and depressed