Security vs Solitude - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
(countable) Something that secures.
An organization or department responsible for providing security by enforcing laws, rules, and regulations as well as maintaining order.
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, title= (legal) Something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation or law.
(legal) Freedom from apprehension.
(finance) Proof of ownership of stocks, bonds or other investment instruments.
(finance) Property etc. temporarily relinquished to guarantee repayment of a loan.
A guarantee.
* Macaulay
(obsolete) Carelessness; negligence.
* Shakespeare
Aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.
A lonely or deserted place.
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Security is a related term of solitude.
As nouns the difference between security and solitude
is that security is (uncountable) the condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially while solitude is aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.security
English
(wikipedia security)Alternative forms
* secuerity (mostly obsolete)Noun
- Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard, / From firm security .
- Some alleged that we should have no security for our trade.
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- Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word.
- He means, my lord, that we are too remiss, / Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security , / Grows strong and great in substance and in power.
Synonyms
* (condition of not being threatened) safety * (something that secures) protection * (something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation) guarantee, surety * See alsoAntonyms
* insecurity (condition of being threatened )Derived terms
* asset-backed security * computer security * information security * security blanket * Security Council * security by design * security hole * security procedure * security theater * security through obscurity * social securitysolitude
English
Noun
(wikipedia solitude)- Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude , and calls it — peace.