solitude
noun
Origin of solitude
Synonyms for solitude
Related Words for solitude
isolation, loneliness, emptiness, seclusion, silence, retirement, wilderness, privacy, confinement, wasteland, detachment, withdrawal, solitariness, quarantine, separateness, waste, desert, lonesomeness, lonenessExamples from the Web for solitude
Contemporary Examples of solitude
Perhaps some of that solitude and bitterness found its way into Alec Leamas.
The Stacks: How The Berlin Wall Inspired John le Carré’s First MasterpieceJohn le Carré
November 8, 2014
The Dude is at his happiest when he has a few minutes of solitude and rest to get high and listen to whale sounds.
Solitude activates the imagination, and invites introspection.
Gabriel García Márquez, dead at 87, wrote a lot of great fiction, but nothing greater than One Hundred Years of Solitude.
In that first sentence of One Hundred Years of Solitude, there are two mysteries: the firing squad and the ice.
Historical Examples of solitude
I crave for the balm of Nature, the anodyne of solitude, the breath of Mother Earth.
Ballads of a BohemianRobert W. Service
In a forest, solitude would be life; in a city, it is death.
The New Adam and Eve (From "Mosses From An Old Manse")Nathaniel Hawthorne
It was musical,—but how should there be such music in my solitude?
Footprints on the Sea-Shore (From "Twice Told Tales")Nathaniel Hawthorne
She did not wish to be unkind, but her one absorbing idea at this moment was of solitude.
The DreamEmile Zola
How would she stand her solitude—absolutely alone in that house?
The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad