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Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, particularly to the death of a person or other living thing to which a bond or affection was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, grief also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, spiritual and philosophical dimensions.
Emotional components refer to the feelings, such as emotional pain, despair, helplessness, guilt, anxiety, or loneliness. Cognitive components encompass the problem of meaninglessness, the loss of personal values or spiritual faith, and thinking about death. Behavioral components include addictions, and anti-social and compulsive behavior.
Loss function, in statistics, a function representing the cost associated with an event; Path loss, the attenuation undergone by an electromagnetic wave in transit from a transmitter to a receiver Free-space path loss, the loss in signal strength that would result if all influences were sufficiently removed having no effect on its propagation
Ambiguous loss is a loss that occurs without a significant likelihood of reaching emotional closure or a clear understanding. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This kind of loss leaves a person searching for answers, and thus complicates and delays the process of grieving , and often results in unresolved grief.
Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.
Although popular culture often uses jealousy and envy as synonyms, modern philosophers and psychologists have argued for conceptual distinctions between jealousy and envy. For example, philosopher John Rawls [ 31 ] distinguishes between jealousy and envy on the ground that jealousy involves the wish to keep what one has, and envy the wish to ...
Lord Loss is the first novel in the Demonata series written by best-selling teenage horror author Darren Shan. [1] It was originally published in the UK on 6 June 2005. Soon after, it appeared in Japan and America, where Shan's previous series, The Saga of Darren Shan , had sold millions. [ 2 ]