[
US
/sɑɫəˈtɛɹinɪs/
]
NOUN
- a disposition toward being alone
- the state of being alone in solitary isolation
How To Use solitariness In A Sentence
- And I answer, ‘Actually, we were talking about the solitariness of the ‘hill people.’
- Solitariness cause of melancholy; coact, voluntary, how good; sign of melancholy Anatomy of Melancholy
- The solitariness of the job gives shepherding an aura denied everyday employment, and sheep a distinction and poetry not offered other animals.
- Davies fell victim to his old tropes: sexualising the doctor by having him kiss yet another female companion, fetishising him by having Lee Evans as an eccentric boffin kneel at his feet and declare he loved him, and granting him another soliloquy about his cosmic solitariness. Doctor Who Smattering of Spoilers
- Nietzsche's iciness and coldness, the Alpine retreat and solitariness all have an effect in producing a complete and total nihilism - ‘no interests at all.’
- It is one of the few times we get to be alone with our minds, reclining in quiet, warm contemplation, enjoying the faint cling of the water, the steam, the scent, the solitariness.
- I soon found in effect it was impossible for me to declare it, considering the contrast of the solitariness of my long obnubilation and obscurity.
- Cousin german to idleness, and a concomitant cause, which goes hand in hand with it, is [1558] nimia solitudo, too much solitariness, by the testimony of all physicians, cause and symptom both; but as it is here put for a cause, it is either coact, enforced, or else voluntary. Anatomy of Melancholy
- The aura of solitariness that surrounds Don Pedro was perfectly handled by the camera in the final dance, as it left him to concentrate on the other revellers.
- The strongest reason she knew for giving women every means of enlarging their sphere of action was the ultimate solitariness of life.