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Definition of Solitude
1. Noun. A state of social isolation.
2. Noun. The state or situation of being alone.
3. Noun. A solitary place.
Definition of Solitude
1. n. state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.
Definition of Solitude
1. Noun. Aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself. ¹
2. Noun. A lonely or deserted place. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Solitude
1. the state of being alone [n -S]
Medical Definition of Solitude
1. 1. State of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.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." (Bacon) "O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?" (Cowper) 2. 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." (Law) 3. Solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness. "In these deep solitudes and awful cells Where heavenly pensive contemplation dwells." (Pope) Synonym: Loneliness, soitariness, loneness, retiredness, recluseness. Solitude, Retirement, Seclusion, Loneliness. Retirement is a withdrawal from general society, implying that a person has been engaged in its scenes. Solitude describes the fact that a person is alone; seclusion, that he is shut out from others, usually by his own choice; loneliness, that he feels the pain and oppression of being alone. Hence, retirement is opposed to a gay, active, or public life; solitude, to society; seclusion, to freedom of access on the part of others; and loneliness, enjoyment of that society which the heart demands. "O blest retirement, friend to life's decline." (Goldsmith) "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." (Dryden) "It is a place of seclusion from the external world." (Bp. Horsley) "These evils . . . Seem likely to reduce it [a city] ere long to the loneliness and the insignificance of a village." (Eustace) Origin: F, from L. Solitudo, solus alone. See Sole. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Solitude
Literary usage of Solitude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1893)
"solitude. WE possess, among our own native treasures, two treatises on this
subject, composed with no ordinary talent, and not their least value consists in ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1902)
"Some Fruits of solitude. By William Penn. With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse.
... Advantages and Disadvantages of solitude. By JG Zimmermann. ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"SOCIETY AND solitude THE second branch of the social passions is that which
administers to society in general. With regard to this, I observe, that society, ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"ODE TO solitude The first of our author's compositions now extant in print, is
an "Ode on solitude," written before he was twelve years old: Which, ..."
5. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1858)
"solitude. WE posses.*, among our own native treasures, two treatises on this ...
Mackenzie, though he wrote in favour of solitude, passed a very active life ..."
6. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1864)
"solitude. WE possess, among our own native treasures, two treatises on this
subject, composed with no ordinary talent, and not their least value consists in ..."
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