SECLUSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seclusion mean? 

• SECLUSION (noun)
  The noun SECLUSION has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others

2. the act of secluding yourself from others

  Familiarity information: SECLUSION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECLUSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

privacy; privateness; seclusion

Hypernyms ("seclusion" is a kind of...):

reclusiveness (a disposition to prefer seclusion or isolation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of secluding yourself from others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("seclusion" is a kind of...):

separation (the social act of separating or parting company)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seclusion"):

cocooning (retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape))

Derivation:

seclude (keep away from others)

 Context examples 

Mars, the action planet, is currently in your twelfth house, which rules efforts behind closed doors in seclusion.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And Mrs. Churchill probably has not health or spirits like Selina to enjoy that sort of seclusion.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And looked back, with fond regret, to the bustles of Uppercross and the seclusion of Kellynch.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

We resided principally in the latter, and the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I mean from henceforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion; you must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship, if my door is often shut even to you.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Seclusion I can understand; but why print?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is a whiskered and colorless type, the latter characteristic pointing to the fact that he spends his days in arboreal seclusion.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But at length she was secured by the exertions of Elinor, who greatly disapproved such continual seclusion.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Though her brother and sister were persuaded that there was no real occasion for such a seclusion from the family, they did not attempt to oppose it, for they knew that she had not prudence enough to hold her tongue before the servants, while they waited at table, and judged it better that one only of the household, and the one whom they could most trust should comprehend all her fears and solicitude on the subject.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It is very bold in me, said Agnes, looking up again, who have lived in such seclusion, and can know so little of the world, to give you my advice so confidently, or even to have this strong opinion.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)