Solitude

Definition: Solitude

Solitude

Noun

1. A state of social isolation.

2. A solitary place.

3. A disposition toward being alone.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "solitude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Solitude \Sol"i*tude\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression solitudo, solus alone. See Sole,]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Solitude

Seclusion Exclusion

Noun: seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; snugness; Adjective: delitescence; rustication, rus in urbe; solitude; solitariness; (singleness); isolation; loneliness; Adjective: estrangement from the world, voluntary exile; aloofness.

Among them but not of them ; " and homeless near a thousand homes I stood "; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife; " makes a solitude and calls it peace "; magna civitas magna solitudo; " never less alone than when alone "; " O sacred solitude! divine retreat! ".

Unity

Noun: unity; oneness; Adjective: individuality; solitude; (seclusion); isolation; (disjunction); unification.

Crosswords: Solitude

French (desolation, loneliness, privacy, retirement, seclusion, solitude).

That's very good Jack, because, uh, for some people, solitude and isolation can, of itself become a problem. (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

I tell ya, instead of being alone in a group, it's better to have real solitude all by yourself. (Cowboy Bebop; writing credit: Akihiko Inari)

Solitude never hurt anyone. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

When from our better selves we have too long Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude. (Next Stop Wonderland; writing credit: Brad Anderson; Lyn Vaus)

Only the birds and the beasts live in solitude. (Ran; writing credit: Masato Ide; Akira Kurosawa)

Round and round in circles live a life of solitude (Millennium; performing artist: Robbie Williams)

Solitude (1957)

Fort de la solitude (1947)

Felix the Cat Seeks Solitude (1926)

100 Years in Search of Solitude (2000)

Addicted to Solitude (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• All of a Sudden: Solitude (reference)

• Cien Años de Soledad/ 100 Years of Solitude (Nueva Austral Series, Vol. 100) (reference)

• The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage (reference)

• Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation (reference)

• Various Poetic Waves of the Mind with Solitude Words of Vision: Feat. I Talk Too U, You Talk to Me (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Profile of a Writer: Marquez - Tales Beyond Solitude (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Glenn Gould: Solitude Trilogy (reference)

• Solitude (reference)

• Solitude Standing (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

AH! It's great to get out into the solitude and wilds for a little angling!. Credit: Fisheries.

Studious solitude of future doctor. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jean Mohr..

Monsieur Joly preferred society to solitude. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Solitude," an outhouse on property of Frank Weeks, near Williston, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Here from the world I win release, Nor scorn of men, nor footstep rude, Break in to mar the holy peace Of this great solitude.

This sleep in this solitude, with a neighbour such as he, contained a touch of the sublime, which he felt vaguely but powerfully.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The solitude

Ending with "solitude": near-solitude.

Albanian

vetmi (desolation, escape, oneness, privacy), vend i vetmuar (Hermitage). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وحشة (dreariness, solicitude), ‏وحدة (collective, community, identity, isolation, loneliness, oneness, singularity, togetherness, unit, unity), ‏حدة (acridity, acrimony, acuity, acuteness, asperity, edge, great rage, intensification, intensity, keenness, loneness, paroxysmal, piquancy, poignancy, pungency, ruggedness, severity, sharpness, solitariness, temper, vehemence), ‏توحد (band together, enclose, inclose, retirement, uniformity, unite), ‏عزلة (alienation, aloofness, desolation, isolation, loneliness, privacy, remoteness, retirement, seclusion), ‏إنعزال (detachment, insulation, isolation, secession, segregation). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усамотено място (retreat), усамотение (intimity, privacy, retirement, seclusion), уединение (privacy, reclusion, retreat, sequestration), самота (desolation, loneliness, privacy). (various references)

Chinese 

孑然. (various references)

Czech

samota, osamìlost (loneliness, seclusion), odlehlost (remoteness), izolovanost. (various references)

Farsi 

تنهاءی (Privacy), خلوت (Privacy, Sanctum), جای خلوت , انفراد. (various references)

Finnish

yksinäisyys (isolation, loneliness, seclusion). (various references)

French

solitude. (various references)

German

Einsamkeit (emptiness, isolation, loneliness, privacy, reclusion, reclusiveness, secludedness, seclusion, solitariness), Einöde (desert, waste, wasteland). (various references)

Greek 

μοναξιά (aloneness, desolation, loneliness, lonesomeness, privacy, seclusion, solitariness). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקום � �"ח, �"תיח�"ות (communion, individuation, isolation), �"תבו�"�"ות (isolation, retirement, seclusion, segregation), �'למו�"יות (loneliness), ב�"י�"ות (isolation, loneliness, seclusion, solitariness). (various references)

Hungarian

magány (privacy, seclusion, sequestration, solitariness), egyedüllét (aloneness, loneliness, privacy, private). (various references)

Indonesian

ketersendirian, kesunyian (desolation, silence), kesendirian (aloneness). (various references)

Italian

solitudine (loneliness, privacy, seclusion). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

独居 (solitary life), 独りぼっち (alone, lonely), 幽境 (secluded place), 幽寂味 (quiet), 孤独 (isolation, loneliness), 一人ぼっち (alone, lonely). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひとりぼっち (alone, lonely), どっきょ (solitary life), �"どく (isolation, loneliness), ゆうきょう (chivalrous person, merrymaking, pleasures, secluded place), ゆうじゃくみ (quiet). (various references)

Korean 

� 독. (various references)

Manx

lomarcanys (loneliness, solitariness), fadanys (lonely place, reclusion, uncultivated place), fadane (uncultivated place, unfrequented place, wild). (various references)

Pig Latin

olitudesay

Portuguese

solidão (desert, loneliness, retirement, seclusion, shade), lugar solitário, lugar retirado (shade), isolamento (apartness, insulation, loneliness, retirement, seclusion, sequestration), ermo (bleak, cloistered, cloistral, desert, devastated, dreary, free-for-all, gaunt, lone, solitary, unfrequented, waste, wild), deserto (arid, desert, deserted, desolate, devastated, dreary, gaunt, waste, wild, wilderness). (various references)

Romanian

solitudine (isolation), singurãtate (desolation, isolation, loneliness, retiredness, retirement, retiring, seclusion, secrecy, shadow), pustnicie (Hermitage, reclusion), pustiu (bare, blank, bleak, desert, deserted, desolate, empty, gaunt, senseless, solitary, uninhabited, unoccupied, useless, waste, wild, wilderness), pustietate (seclusion, wilderness), pãrãsire (abandon, dereliction, desertion, desolation, dezmãþat, forsaking, relinquishment, renouncement, vacation). (various references)

Russian 

одиночество (desolation, loneliness, singleness). (various references)

Scottish

ònrachd. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

usamljenost (loneliness, singleness). (various references)

Spanish

soledad (cloistral, Dandy, desolation, isolation, loneliness, orphanhood, privacy, wild). (various references)

Swedish

enslighet (desolation, intimity, loneliness), ensamhet (loneliness, lonelyness, oneness, solitariness). (various references)

Turkish

yalnızlık (desolation, loneliness, privacy, singleness), tenhalık (wilds), tek başınalık, ıssızlık (desolation, wilds). (various references)

Ukrainian

самітність (closeness, desolation, loneliness, oneness, onliness, retirement, sequester), безлюдність. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tình trạng cô đơn nơi vắng vẻ, nơi tĩnh mịch. (various references)

Welsh

unigrwydd (loneliness), unigedd (loneliness). (various references)

desolatio, desolatione, desolationem, desolationis, solitas, solitudine, solitudinem, solitudines, solitudinibus, solitudinis, solitudo. (various references)

solitude. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "solitude": solitudes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Solitude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jollitude, salitude, scolytid, Selotape, siliquae, silitude, soleitude, solitice, solitued, soliture. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: toluides.

-1 letter: dilutes, duelist, loudest, outlies, outside, tedious, toluide, toluids, tousled.

-2 letters: delist, dilute, duties, idlest, listed, louies, loused, louted, lusted, oldest, oldies, ousted, outlie, siloed, silted, soiled, solute, souled, stoled, stolid, studio, suited, tildes, todies, toiled, toiles, toluid, toused, tousle.

-3 letters: deils, deist, delis, delts, diets, diols, dites, doest, doits, doles, dolts, dotes, douse.

+1 letter: cloudiest, dissolute, loudliest, mouldiest, outfields, outsailed, outsmiled, outyields, solitudes, tediously.

+2 letters: deltoideus, longitudes, outslicked, quodlibets, solicitude, tendrilous, toluidines, ungodliest.

+3 letters: absolutized, colatitudes, declivitous, deleterious, desultorily, devolutions, dissolutely, elucidators, fluoridates, inosculated, nucleotides, outdelivers, outfielders, seditiously, silhouetted, solicitudes, unsolicited.

+4 letters: boatbuilders, deglutitions, despiteously, devaluations, discountable, doublethinks, elucidations, modularities, multistoried, nucleotidase, subeditorial, tolbutamides.

+5 letters: adulterations, andouillettes, deleteriously, demodulations, depopulations, deregulations, desultoriness, devolutionist, dinucleotides, dissoluteness, documentalist, expeditiously, hemodilutions, lepidopterous, nucleotidases, plenitudinous, subordinately, superdiplomat, tendentiously.

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