Solitude vs Leisure - What's the difference?
solitude | leisure |
Aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.
A lonely or deserted place.
* 1813 , , Canto 2, stanza 20:
Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
Time free from work or duties.
* Sir W. Temple
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 11
* 1908 , William David Ross (translator), Aristotle,
Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
* Dryden
As nouns the difference between solitude and leisure
is that solitude is aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself while leisure is freedom provided by the cessation of activities.solitude
English
Noun
(wikipedia solitude)- Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude , and calls it — peace.
Synonyms
* alonenessAntonyms
* intimacyDerived terms
* two solitudesSee also
* loneliness ----leisure
English
Noun
- The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.
- Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
- This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure .
- He sighed, and had no leisure more to say.