Recluse vs. Seclude

A recluse is a person who lives in voluntary seclusion from the public and society. The word is from the Latin recludere, which means "shut up" or "sequester".

To set or keep apart, as from social contact with others.

a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people

(transitive) To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude.

favouring a solitary life.

(transitive) To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude.

A person who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude.

To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.

Withdrawn from the world; reclusive.

To shut or keep out; to exclude.

sequestered; secluded, isolated

keep away from others;

hidden, secret

a person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit

(obsolete) the place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion

(US) a brown recluse spider

(obsolete) to shut; to seclude

Shut up, sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life

A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries.

The place where a recluse dwells.

To shut up; to seclude.

one who lives in solitude

withdrawn from society; seeking solitude;