Hermit vs. Ascetic

Hermitnoun

A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.

Asceticadjective

Of or relating to ascetics

Hermitnoun

A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.

Asceticadjective

Characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.

Hermitnoun

A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.

Asceticnoun

One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.

Hermitnoun

A hermit crab.

Asceticadjective

Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.

‘The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline.’;

Hermitnoun

A bird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae.

Asceticnoun

In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.

‘I am far from commending those ascetics that take up their quarters in deserts.’;

Hermitnoun

A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.

‘He had been Duke of Savoy, and after a very glorious reign, took on him the habit of a hermit, and retired into this solitary spot.’;

Asceticnoun

practices self denial as spiritual discipline

Hermitnoun

A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.

Asceticadjective

pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline;

‘ascetic practices’;

Hermitnoun

A spiced molasses cookie, often containing chopped raisins and nuts.

Asceticadjective

practicing great self-denial;

‘Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it’; ‘a desert nomad's austere life’; ‘a spartan diet’; ‘a spartan existence’;

Hermitnoun

one retired from society for religious reasons

Asceticadjective

characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons

‘an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labour’;

Hermitnoun

one who lives in solitude

Asceticnoun

a person who follows an ascetic life.

Hermitnoun

a person living in solitude as a religious discipline.

Hermitnoun

a reclusive or solitary person.

Hermitnoun

a hummingbird found in the shady lower layers of tropical forests, foraging along a regular route.

Hermit

A hermit, or eremite (adjectival form: hermitic or eremitic), is a person who lives in seclusion. Hermits are a part of several sections of various religions and this concept has garnered significant attention and importance.