Seclusion \Se*clu"sion\, n. [See Seclude.]
The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded;
separation from society or connection; a withdrawing;
privacy; as, to live in seclusion.
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O blest seclusion from a jarring world, which he, thus
occupied, enjoys! --Cowper.
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Syn: Solitude; separation; withdrawment; retirement; privacy.
See Solitude.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
seclusion
n 1: the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of
others [syn: privacy, privateness]
2: the act of secluding yourself from others
WordNet (r) 2.0
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "seclusion":
Jim Crow, alien, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, anonymity,
apartheid, celibacy, closed meeting, color bar, confidentiality,
confidentialness, cordon, cordon sanitaire, cordoning off,
detachment, division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness,
executive session, foreigner, incognito, insularity, insulation,
isolation, keeping apart, know-nothingism, loneliness, loneness,
lonesomeness, moving apart, narrowness, out-group, outcast,
outsider, parochialism, persona non grata, privacy, private,
private conference, privateness, quarantine, quarantine flag,
race hatred, racial segregation, reclusion, retirement,
sanitary cordon, seclusiveness, segregation, separateness,
separation, sequestration, single blessedness, snobbishness,
solitariness, solitude, splendid isolation, stranger, tightness,
withdrawal, xenophobia, yellow flag, yellow jack
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
privacy, privateness
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