noun. The fact or state of being solitary, or alone, or without mate, partner, or companion, or of dwelling apart from others or by one's self; habitual retirement; solitude.

noun. The state or character of being retired or unfrequented; solitude; seclusion: as, the solitariness of a wood.

noun. Condition of being solitary.

noun. The state or quality of being solitary.

noun. the state of being alone in solitary isolation

noun. a disposition toward being alone

"I may not deny but that there is some profitable meditation, contemplation, and kind of solitariness to be embraced, which the fathers so highly commended, [1562] Hierom, Chrysostom, Cyprian,"

isolation  

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