Synonyms for solitude
ˈsɒl ɪˌtud, -ˌtyudsoli·tude

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1. solitudenoun

   Synonyms:
   aloneness

2. solitudenoun

   Aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.

   Synonyms:
   aloneness

3. solitudenoun

   A lonely or deserted place.

   Synonyms:
   aloneness

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1. solitude

   In retirement one withdraws from association he has had with others; we speak of the retirement of a public man to private life, tho he may still be much in company. 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. As "private" denotes what concerns ourselves individually, privacy denotes freedom from the presence or observation of those not concerned or whom we desire not to have concerned in our affairs; privacy is more commonly temporary than seclusion; we speak of a moment's privacy. There may be loneliness without solitude, as amid an unsympathizing crowd, and solitude without loneliness, as when one is glad to be alone.

   Synonyms:
   loneliness, privacy, retirement, seclusion

   Antonyms:
   association, companionship, company, converse, fellowship, society

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1. solitude

   Synonyms:
   loneliness, remoteness, seclusion, retirement, isolation, wildness, desertion, barrenness, wilderness, privacy

   Antonyms:
   publicity, populousness, society, frequentedness, intercourse, resort, meeting, reunion, throng, crowd

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1. solitude, purdahnoun

   a state of social isolation

   Synonyms:
   purdah, sex segregation

2. solitudenoun

   the state or situation of being alone

   Synonyms:
   purdah

3. solitudenoun

   a solitary place

   Synonyms:
   purdah

Matched Categories

1. • Isolation
   • Topographic Point

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1. solitudenoun

   Synonyms:
   loneliness, isolation, seclusion, solitariness, lonely state, seclusiveness, lonely life, estrangement from the world

2. solitudenoun

   Synonyms:
   desert, wilderness, waste, lonely place, deserted region

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1. solitudenoun

   Synonyms:
   loneliness, isolation, seclusion, eremitism, retirement, wilderness

   Associated words:
   apanthropy, monophobia, eremophobia

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1. List of paraphrases for "solitude":

   loneliness, ioneliness, lonely

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1. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations – Book Three:

   One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

2. John Keats:

   Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

3. William Wordsworth:

   When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

4. Amelia Barr:

   ...solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...

5. Giacomo Leopardi:

   Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.