solitude
solitude
nounDefinition of SOLITUDE
the state of being alone or kept apart from others <sought the kind of solitude where his thoughts would be his only companions>
Synonyms aloneness, insulation, privacy, secludedness, seclusion, segregation, separateness, sequestration, solitariness, solitude
Related Words loneliness, lonesomeness; vacuum; confinement, incarceration, internment, quarantine; retirement, withdrawal; ghettoization
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