Solitude vs. Seclusion — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Solitude and Seclusion
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Solitude
Solitude is a state of seclusion or isolation, i.e., lack of contact with people. It can have both positive and negative effects, depending on the situation.
Seclusion
Seclusion is the act of secluding (i.e. isolating from society), the state of being secluded, or a place that facilitates it (a secluded place).
Solitude
The state or quality of being alone or remote from others
Composers need solitude to work.
Seclusion
The act of secluding
The judge ordered the seclusion of the jury.
Solitude
The state of being secluded or uninhabited
Sought out the solitude of the forest.
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Seclusion
The state of being secluded
The seclusion of the desert.
Solitude
A secluded or uninhabited place
"Beyond his bleak sky-line there stretched vast solitudes" (Jack London).
Seclusion
(Archaic) A secluded place or abode.
Solitude
Aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.
Seclusion
The act of secluding, shutting out or keeping apart.
Solitude
A lonely or deserted place.
Seclusion
The state of being secluded or shut out, as from company, society, the world, etc.; solitude.
Solitude
State of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.
Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
O Solitude! where are the charmsThat sages have seen in thy face?
Seclusion
A secluded, isolated or private place.
Solitude
Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; - said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.
The solitude of his little parish is become matter of great comfort to him.
Seclusion
(meteorology) The mature phase of the extratropical cyclone life cycle.
Warm seclusion
Solitude
Solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.
In these deep solitudes and awful cellsWhere heavenly pensive contemplation dwells.
O blest retirement, friend to life's decline.
Such only can enjoy the country who are capable of thinking when they are there; then they are prepared for solitude; and in that [the country] solitude is prepared for them.
It is a place of seclusion from the external world.
These evils . . . seem likely to reduce it [a city] ere long to the loneliness and the insignificance of a village.
Seclusion
The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion.
O blest seclusion from a jarring world, which he, thus occupied, enjoys!
Solitude
A state of social isolation
Seclusion
The quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others
Solitude
A solitary place
Seclusion
The act of secluding yourself from others
Solitude
A disposition toward being alone
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