[
US
/ˈsɑɫəˌtud/
]
[ UK /sˈɒlɪtjˌuːd/ ]
[ UK /sˈɒlɪtjˌuːd/ ]
NOUN
- a state of social isolation
- a solitary place
- the state or situation of being alone
How To Use solitude In A Sentence
- Having spent years working and living in London and across Eastern Europe, the solitude and beauty of the landscape offered a powerful draw.
- Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear. Know Your Own Mind
- The lifestyle accustomed Johnson to the solitude that now forms his six hour a day, six days a week training regimen.
- Those people who need others to confirm their sense of existence fear solitude and find nature's indifference to human beings unendurable.
- They fail to realize that elderly people, when reduced to a deplorable state of solitude, have all the more need for someone to talk to and interact with.
- The award recognized the challenges involved in the building project and its sympathetic approach to the hermitage, which provides a place for the hermit monks, both male and female to live a life of solitude.
- On the contrary, there is a vast shadow of melancholy, a painful sadness, doubt and cross-purpose, boldness at one moment and timidity at the next, a longing for solitude. Half a Rogue
- You get a sense of shared solitude, conveyed subtly but precisely, with masterly delicacy and without ostentatious ‘acting’.
- he is a gregarious person who avoids solitude
- Ingolstadt; and I confess to you, my friend, that when I saw you last autumn so unhappy, flying to solitude, from the society of every creature, Chapter 5