Definition of Reclusiveness

1. Noun. A disposition to prefer seclusion or isolation.

Generic synonyms: Aloneness, Loneliness, Lonesomeness, Solitariness
Specialized synonyms: Privacy, Privateness, Seclusion
Derivative terms: Reclusive, Reclusive

Definition of Reclusiveness

1. Noun. The state or characteristic of being reclusive. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reclusiveness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reclusiveness

recluded
recludes
recluding
recluse spider
recluse spiders
reclused
reclusely
recluseness
recluses
reclusing
reclusion
reclusions
reclusive
reclusively
reclusiveness
reclusivenesses
reclusories
reclusory
recluster
reclustered
reclustering
reclusters
recoal
recoaled
recoaling
recoals
recoat
recoated
recoating

Literary usage of Reclusiveness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Union--disunion--reunion: : Three Decades of Federal Legislation 1855 to by Samuel Sullivan Cox (1885)
"Reverdy Johnson's elocution, albeit trained in the solemn hush and reclusiveness of the Supreme Court, was loud, orotund, and defiant. ..."

2. Union--disunion--reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885 by Samuel Sullivan Cox (1886)
"Reverdy Johnson's elocution, albeit trained in the solemn hush and reclusiveness of the Supreme Court, was loud, orotund, and defiant. ..."

3. Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Coexisting Mental Illness and by Richard Ries (1996)
"Depression may manifest as social withdrawal, reclusiveness, or inability to complete activities of daily living such as going to work. ..."

4. The Holland House Circle by Lloyd Charles Sanders (1908)
"Gray exaggerated the reclusiveness of Lord Holland's life after his retirement from politics. He had quarrelled with Shelburne and Rigby, but he retained ..."

5. Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885 by Samuel Sullivan Cox (1885)
"Reverdy Johnson's elocution, albeit trained in the solemn hush and reclusiveness of the Supreme Court, was loud, orotund, and defiant. ..."

6. Human Rights in Northern Ireland: Congressional Hearing edited by Christopher H. Smith (1999)
"... severe restriction on all forms of stimulation in this environment has caused prisoners to develop reclusiveness and an inability to communicate as well ..."

7. In the Shade of an Acacia Tree: Memoirs of a Health Officer in Africa, 1945-1959 by Frank L. Lambrecht (1991)
"We get glimpses of the boredom, the progressive reclusiveness of some, the need to establish relationships with local people that would be emotionally ..."

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