'Seclusion' definitions:
Definition of 'seclusion'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others [syn: privacy, privateness, seclusion]
noun
The act of secluding yourself from others
Definition of 'Seclusion'
From: GCIDE
- Seclusion \Se*clu"sion\, n. [See Seclude.] The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion. [1913 Webster]
- O blest seclusion from a jarring world, which he, thus occupied, enjoys! --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Solitude; separation; withdrawment; retirement; privacy. See Solitude. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'seclusion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alien,
- alienation,
- aloneness,
- aloofness,
- anonymity,
- apartheid,
- celibacy,
- closed meeting,
- color bar,
- confidentiality,
- confidentialness,
- cordon,
- cordon sanitaire,
- cordoning off,
- detachment,
- division,
- ethnocentrism,
- exclusiveness,
- executive session,
- foreigner,
- incognito,
- insularity,
- insulation,
- isolation,
- Jim Crow,
- keeping apart,
- know-nothingism,
- loneliness,
- loneness,
- lonesomeness,
- moving apart,
- narrowness,
- out-group,
- outcast,
- outsider,
- parochialism,
- persona non grata,
- privacy,
- private,
- private conference,
- privateness,
- quarantine,
- quarantine flag,
- race hatred,
- racial segregation,
- reclusion,
- retirement,
- sanitary cordon,
- seclusiveness,
- segregation,
- separateness,
- separation,
- sequestration,
- single blessedness,
- snobbishness,
- solitariness,
- solitude,
- splendid isolation,
- stranger,
- tightness,
- withdrawal,
- xenophobia,
- yellow flag,
- yellow jack