Celebration of Solo Living

[GoodTaste]

Happy Singlehood: The Rising Acceptance and Celebration of Solo Living
Paperback – Illustrated, February 26, 2019
Happy Singlehood charts a way forward for singles to live life on their own terms, and shows how everyone - single or coupled - can benefit from accepting solo living.

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I fail to feel whether "solo living" is very formal in English or not. It seems to be that "staying single" is too casual to be used here.
By "solo living" might not be as formal as "singlehood", I am not sure. "Solo" might sound humorous, I am not sure.

The question here is: Is "solo living" very formal in English?

 

[jutfrank]

I don't quite know what you mean by 'formal' or why you're asking that.

The phrase 'solo living' is a term recently coined to refer to a certain new kind of modern lifestyle. When a new thing comes along, it needs a new term.

 

[5jj]

Happy Singlehood: The Rising Acceptance and Celebration of Solo Living
Paperback – Illustrated, February 26, 2019

Author?

 

[Tarheel]

I guess by "I fail to feel whether" that you mean "I don't know if". What's solo living? It's living alone. Somebody invented a new word for it.

 

[tedmc]

To go solo is to do something alone, hence "to live solo"(verb) and "solo living" (noun). There's nothing informal or humorous about it.

 

[jutfrank]

My sense is that the word 'solo' is preferred for this term over the word 'alone', which has somewhat negative connotations.

 

[GoodTaste]

Author?

Elyakim Kislev, who holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University and three master's degrees in counseling, sociology, and public policy.

 

[GoodTaste]

I guess by "I fail to feel whether" that you mean "I don't know if". What's solo living? It's living alone. Somebody inventory a new word for it.

By "I fail to feel whether", I meant that the meaning is clear, but whether the tone is serious or rigorous in a scholarly way, I wasn't sure - I couldn't feel. A phrase like "staying alone" sounds casual and I can feel its casualty.

 

[5jj]

Elyakim Kislev, who holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University and three master's degrees in counseling, sociology, and public policy.

We require only the name of the author (and the title of the work), thank you.

 

[tedmc]

By "I fail to feel whether", I meant that the meaning is clear, but whether the tone is serious or rigorous in a scholarly way, I wasn't sure - I couldn't feel. A phrase like "staying alone" sounds casual and I can feel its casualty.

"I fail to feel" is incorrect. I think you mean you don't know whether the phrase "solo living" is formal or informal.
Do you mean "casualty" or "casualness"?

 

[Tarheel]

By "I fail to feel whether", I meant that the meaning is clear, but whether the tone is serious or rigorous in a scholarly way, I wasn't sure - I couldn't feel. A phrase like "staying alone" sounds casual and I can feel its casualty.

One, it was supposed to be "invented". (I'm going to have to be more careful.)

Two, as was already noted, it's not meant humorously. Otherwise, I'm not sure what you mean by that. I recommend that you not get in the habit of using "fail to feel".