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Solitude vs Withdrawal - What's the difference?

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Solitude is a related term of withdrawal.


As nouns the difference between solitude and withdrawal

is that solitude is aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself while withdrawal is receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them usually refers to money.

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 ----

    withdrawal

    English

    (wikipedia withdrawal)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
  • A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
  • A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is addicted is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier
    • heroin withdrawal
    nicotine withdrawal
  • An act of withdrawing.

    • Antonyms

    * (sense, receiving from someone's care) deposit