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seclusion - 11 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | seclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | isolation |
| Synonyms: | blockade, concealment, desolation, detachment, hiding, privacy, quarantine, retreat, separation, shelter, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, privateness, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, retirement, seclusiveness, separateness, sequestration |
| Antonyms: | open, public |
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-nouns
seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; snugness; delitescence; rustication, rus in urbe; solitude; solitariness (singleness) [more]; isolation; loneliness; estrangement from the world, voluntary exile; aloofness., cell, hermitage; convent [more]; sanctum sanctorum., depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness (unproductive) [more]; howling wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum., exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription; cut, cut direct; dead cut., inhospitality, inhospitableness; dissociability; domesticity, Darby and Joan., recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret, anchorite; Simon Stylites; troglodyte, Timon of Athens, Santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic; wastrel, foundling, wilding.
-verbs
be secluded, live secluded; keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself, creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux; retire, retire from the world; take the veil; abandon [more]; sport one's oak., cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round., depopulate; dispeople, unpeople.
-adjectives
secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye; out of the world, out of the way; "the world forgetting by the world forgot" [Pope]., snug, domestic, stay-at-home., unsociable; unsocial, dissocial; inhospitable, cynical, inconversable, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic., solitary; lonely, lonesome; isolated, single.
-phrases
noli me tangere.
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| Antonyms: | sociality |
| Main Entry: | loneliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | isolation |
| Synonyms: | alienation, desolation, heartache, seclusion, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, forlornness, friendlessness, lonesomeness, remoteness, solitariness |
| Main Entry: | privacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | solitude, secrecy |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, clandestineness, concealment, confidentiality, isolation, one's space, penetralia, privateness, quiet, retirement, retreat, seclusion, separateness, separation, sequestration, solitude |
| Antonyms: | publicity, publicness, sociableness |
| Main Entry: | quarantine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | isolation |
| Synonyms: | detention, seclusion, segregation, separation, lazaretto, sequestration |
| Main Entry: | secrecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concealment |
| Synonyms: | confidence, dark, darkness, hiding, hush, isolation, mystery, privacy, reticence, seclusion, silence, solitude, stealth, suppression, clandestineness, confidentiality, covertness, furtiveness, retirement, secretiveness, secretness, surreptitiousness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, publicity, revelation, forthrightness, openness |
| Main Entry: | segregation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | separation |
| Synonyms: | apartheid, discrimination, dissociation, division, isolation, partition, seclusion, disunion, exlusion, splitting up |
| Main Entry: | solitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aloneness |
| Synonyms: | confinement, desert, detachment, emptiness, isolation, loneliness, privacy, quarantine, seclusion, silence, waste, wasteland, wilderness, withdrawal, loneness, lonesomeness, peace and quiet, reclusiveness, retirement, separateness, solitariness |
| Antonyms: | companionship, friendship, togetherness |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance; mystery |
| Synonyms: | concealment, seclusion, secrecy, thickness, denseness, inscrutability |
| Antonyms: | cognizance, intelligence, sense, sensibility, understanding, enlightening |
| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance; mystery |
| Synonyms: | blindness, concealment, isolation, privacy, seclusion, secrecy, denseness, inscrutability, unawareness |
| Antonyms: | cognizance, intelligence, sense, sensibility, understanding, enlightening |
| Main Entry: | retreat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place one goes for peace |
| Synonyms: | ark, asylum, cell, cloister, convent, cover, covert, defense, den, habitat, harbor, haunt, haven, hermitage, hideaway, ivory tower*, port, privacy, refuge, resort, safe house, sanctuary, seclusion, security, shelter, solitude, adytum, hiding place, retirement, safe place |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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