Sentence examples for lovesickness from inspiring English sources
The word "lovesickness" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe when someone feels melancholy due to unrequited love, or lovesickness for someone who is no longer in the picture. Example sentence: His lovesickness became so severe that he could no longer focus on his work.
noun
Quality or property of being lovesick.
Generally his expression carried lovesickness to the point of outright queasiness.
Watching Marianne's near-death scene (lovesickness, fever) in "Sense and Sensibility," I wondered why I was so pierced, and so desolated, when Elinor addresses her sister as, simply, "my dearest".
The characters' folly is in their lovesickness, an idealization of the other that mostly takes the form of poetry.
Describing bodily functions with any degree of realism — as he did in the witty sonnet "A Channel Passage," graphically equating lovesickness and seasickness — could make you notorious.
Collecting can be a sort of lovesickness.
No lovesickness afflicts its male inhabitants.
The melancholy of "Tomb of the Forefathers," the lovesickness of "It Must Be a Wonderful Thing" and the dreamy sadness of "The Lorelei" were barely glimpsed amid the aggression.
The book's unfortunate title and chapter headings ("On not being in a couple," "Why parents envy their children," "How lovesickness keeps us from love") give the false impression that this is some sort of cheesy self-help book.
As Ian McEwan, who wrote about the subject in his novel Enduring Love, observed: '[De Clerambault's] just turned the heat up under a number of things that were common to all of us.' In other words, the truly scary thing about the illness is the thinness of the line that separates the near- madness of ordinary, acceptable lovesickness from the sheer madness of obsession.
We are being presented with a circus of Shavian lovesickness.
In humans, techniques such as functional magnetic-resonance imaging and positron-emission tomography currently being applied to problems as diverse as working memory and lovesickness can reveal patterns of electrical activity swishing around the brain in real time, says Dr Blake.
