seclusion. exclusion

Roget category 893

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.1. Social affections

#893. Seclusion. Exclusion

noun

seclusion, privacy — retirement — reclusion, recess — snugness etc. adj. — delitescence^† — rustication, rus in urbe [Lat.] — solitude — solitariness etc. (singleness) 87 — isolation — loneliness etc. adj. — estrangement from the world, voluntary exile — aloofness.
cell, hermitage — convent etc. 1000 — sanctum sanctorum [Lat.].
depopulation, desertion, desolation — wilderness etc. (unproductive) 169 — howling wilderness — rotten borough, Old Sarum.
exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription — cut, cut direct — dead cut.
inhospitality^†, inhospitableness etc. adj. — dissociability^† — domesticity, Darby and Joan.
recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite — anchoret^†, anchorite — Simon Stylites^† — troglodyte, Timon of Athens^†, Santon^†, solitaire, ruralist^†, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes — outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic^† — wastrel, foundling, wilding^†.

verb

be secluded, live secluded etc. adj. — keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background — keep snug — shut oneself up — deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux [Fr.] — retire, retire from the world — take the veil — abandon etc. 624 — sport one's oak [Slang].
cut, cut dead — refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge — look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon — repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate — banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round.
depopulate — dispeople^†, unpeople^†.

adjective

secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent^†, private, bye — out of the world, out of the way — the world forgetting by the world forgot" [Pope]. snug, domestic, stay-at-home.
unsociable — unsocial, dissocial^† — inhospitable, cynical, inconversable^†, unclubbable, sauvage [Fr.], troglodytic.
solitary — lonely, lonesome — isolated, single.
estranged — unfrequented — uninhabitable, uninhabited — tenantless — abandoned — deserted, deserted in one's utmost need — unfriended^† — kithless^†, friendless, homeless — lorn^†, forlorn, desolate.
unvisited, unintroduced^†, uninvited, unwelcome — under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast.
banished etc. v..

phrase

noli me tangere [Lat.].
among them but not of them" [Byron]; and homeless near a thousand homes I stood" [Wordsworth]; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife [Gray]; makes a solitude and calls it peace" [Byron]; magna civitas magna solitudo [Lat.] — never less alone than when alone" [Rogers]; O sacred solitude! divine retreat! " [Young].

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

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