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Solitude vs Reclusiveness - What's the difference?

solitude | reclusiveness |

As nouns the difference between solitude and reclusiveness

is that solitude is aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself while reclusiveness is the state or characteristic of being reclusive.

solitude

English

Noun

(wikipedia solitude)
  • Aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.
  • A lonely or deserted place.
  • * 1813 , , Canto 2, stanza 20:
    • Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
    He makes a solitude , and calls it — peace.

    Synonyms

    * aloneness

    Antonyms

    * intimacy

    Derived terms

    * two solitudes

    Related terms

    * sole * solo * soliloquy * solitary * solitudinous * solitudinously

    See also

    * loneliness ----

    reclusiveness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or characteristic of being reclusive.
  • *2006 , Erica Wagner, "First word: People don't love Harper Lee—they love her work", Times Online , London, 4 Feb (retrieved 29 June 2007):
  • *:But of Lee you hear hardly anything at all; she is nearly as famous for her reclusiveness (now there’s an oxymoron) as J. D. Salinger.

    • Synonyms

    *isolation *publicity-shyness

    References

    * * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.