What is a loss? This word is often pronounced and its meaning seems to be obvious. However, as with many other expressions, this word has semantic nuances that can quite change depending on what it is about, that is, on the general context.
About the meaning of the word
According to dictionaries, loss is an expression used in colloquial speech or in literary works in two semantic directions.
The first is a characteristic of the action, that is, in the meaning of the verb. The meaning of application in speech in this form can be expressed by the words:
- to lose;
- to lose;
- to lose;
- to stop something;
- to remain without any person, object or phenomenon.
The second semantic meaning is that loss is the result of some action or intent that led to deprivation and loss.
Synonyms that are close in meaning in this case are the following words:
- loss;
- deprivation;
- termination.
At first glance, the differences in the nuances of meaning are not particularly large. However, when using a word in a specific context, they are quite tangible.
Examples of use in speech
Examples of use in speech are expressions combining the word "loss" with the following:
- roots
- loved ones;
- Homeland;
- homeland;
- faith;
- meaning of life;
- goals;
- orientation.
Of course, these are not all the words that are used in speech in combination with the word "loss" and affect the shades of its semantic meaning.
The concept of loss in psychology
Loss in psychology is a kind of term, a concept that characterizes a specific emotional state of a person caused by certain circumstances, actions or events that directly occurred in his life or touched him, affected him.
As a rule, psychologists use more than one word “loss” in order to denote a state experienced by a person. The expression "loss syndrome" is much more common. This is a state of acute, intense grief, emotionally difficult to tolerate and causing deep feelings.
The loss itself, causing the syndrome of the same name, can be either temporary, correctable, or permanent, final. In addition, loss occurs:
- physiological;
- psychological;
- imaginary;
- overestimated.
A loss overestimated by a person is characterized by his inadequate attitude to something, raising a not-so-significant loss to priority, bringing its level to a "catastrophe of universal proportions."
An example of such a hypertrophic perception of loss is an acute emotional experience of dismissal from work, failure in exams, or other similar situations.