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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How to use solitude in a sentence?

1. Gian Vincenzo Gravina:

   A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

2. James Russell Lowell:

   Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

3. 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.

4. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:

   Solitude begets whimsies.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance:

   It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.