solitude

[Sol·i*tude]

Solitude is the state of being alone. You might crave solitude after spending the holidays with your big, loud family you want nothing more than to get away from everyone for a little while.

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state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.

Noun
a disposition toward being alone

Noun
a solitary place

Noun
a state of social isolation

a.
state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.

a.
Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.

a.
solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.

Solitude

Sol"i*tude , n. [F., from L. solitudo, solus alone. See Sole, a.] 1. state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.
Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?
2. Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.
The solitude of his little parish is become matter of great comfort to him.
3. solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.
In these deep solitudes and awful cells Where heavenly pensive contemplation dwells.
Syn. Loneliness; soitariness; loneness; retiredness; recluseness. -- Solitude, Retirement, Seclusion, Loneliness. Retirement is a withdrawal from general society, implying that a person has been engaged in its scenes. Solitude describes the fact that a person is alone; seclusion, that he is shut out from others, usually by his own choice; loneliness, that he feels the pain and oppression of being alone. Hence, retirement is opposed to a gay, active, or public life; solitude, to society; seclusion, to freedom of access on the part of others; and loneliness, enjoyment of that society which the heart demands.
O blest retirement, friend to life's decline.
Such only can enjoy the country who are capable of thinking when they are there; then they are prepared for solitude; and in that [the country] solitude is prepared for them.
It is a place of seclusion from the external world.
These evils . . . seem likely to reduce it [a city] ere long to the loneliness and the insignificance of a village.

state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.

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Usage Examples

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

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Other Usage Examples

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.