seclusion
noun/sɪˈkluːʒn/
/sɪˈkluːʒn/
[uncountable]- the state of being private or of having little contact with other people
- the seclusion and peace of the island
- He spends much of his time in seclusion in the mountains.
Extra Examples- She fled to a life of quiet seclusion, living on a farm in rural Virginia.
- She liked to sunbathe in the seclusion of her own garden.
- seclusion from the outside world
- For the long summer vacation, I prefer the relative seclusion of the countryside.
- They could hardly wait to get back to the seclusion of their own house.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- complete
- total
- relative
- …
- in (the seclusion of)
- seclusion from
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin seclusio(n-), from secludere ‘shut off’, from se- ‘apart’ + claudere ‘to shut’.
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