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Solitude vs Withdrawment - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between solitude and withdrawment

is that solitude is aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself while withdrawment is the act of withdrawing; withdrawal; recall.

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 ----

    withdrawment

    English

    Noun

  • The act of withdrawing; withdrawal; recall.
  • * 1799 , William Belsham, Essays philosophical, historical and literary
    • Withdrawment from the place of their legal habitation has been regarded as a sort of crime in the poor.
    English words prefixed with with-