Synonyms for solitude
Most common
privacy isolation seclusion aloneness hide-hole hermitage wilderness remoteness
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Loneliness — aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself
seclusion, isolation, aloneness, retirement, privacy, solitariness, loneliness dated, loneness dated
2. Hermitage — A lonely or deserted place
hermitage, hide-hole, corner, back of beyond informal UK AU IE, hermitry, bumfuck vulgar slang
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
Aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.
- n. 2
A lonely or deserted place.
Related words
- Word family
- solitudinarian sole soliloquy solitary solo solitarily
Forms
- Plural
- solitudes → seclusions, isolations, alonenesses, retirements…
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In seclusion one shuts himself away from the society of all except intimate friends or attendants; in solitude no other person is present. While seclusion is ordinarily voluntary, solitude may be enforced; we speak of the solitude rather than the seclusion of a prisoner.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- privacy Tom said that he wanted a little bit more privacy.
- isolation I find peace in isolation rather than socializing.
- seclusion I actively choose companionship over seclusion.
- aloneness Aloneness is not quite the same as loneliness.
- hermitage The Hermitage Museum is located in Saint Petersburg.
By length
- 6 letters
- corner2, purdah
- 7 letters
- privacy3, bumfuck
- 8 letters
- loneness, hermitry
- 9 letters
- isolation4, seclusion3, hermitage3, aloneness
- 10 letters
- retirement4, wilderness3, withdrawal3, loneliness3, remoteness3
- 12 letters
- solitariness5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (corner2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- solitude
- Italiano
- solitudine
- Español
- soledad
- Deutsch
- Einsamkeit