Recluse vs Detached - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between recluse and detached

is that recluse is (now rare) Sequestered; secluded, isolated while detached is of a house: not joined to another house on either side.

is that recluse is to shut; to seclude while detached is past tense of detach.

is a person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit.

(wikipedia recluse)

(en adjective)

(now rare ) Sequestered; secluded, isolated.

a recluse monk or hermit

* J. Philips

In meditation deep, recluse / From human converse.

(now rare ) Hidden, secret.

* reclusive

(en noun)

A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit.

(obsolete) The place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion.

(Foxe)

(US) A brown recluse spider.

anchorite, eremite, hermit * See also

* brown recluse * recluse spider

(reclus)

(obsolete) To shut; to seclude.

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(en adjective)

Of a house: not joined to another house on either side.

Having little or no emotions or interest towards someone else.

Not influenced by anyone else; characterized by an impersonal objectivity; impartial.

* semi-detached

(head)

(detach)