seclusion

Noun

seclusion (countable and uncountable, plural seclusions)

1. The act of secluding, shutting out or keeping apart.
   • Seclusion may be used only as a therapeutic measure to prevent a recipient from causing physical harm to himself or physical abuse to others.1809, Laws of the State of Illinois Enacted by the ... General Assembly at the Extra Session .... (1992). United States: Illinois State Journal Company, State Printers.
2. The state of being secluded or shut out, as from company, society, the world, etc.; solitude.
   • Madame de Mercœur was at first unwilling that Francesca should share her seclusion; but her young companion was too much in earnest to be refused. Francesca was still depressed by her recent parting with Guido, and clung to Henriette as her only friend,—she would have felt so utterly alone with...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 183

   Synonyms:

   aloneness, isolation, loneliness, loneness, onehead, oneship, onlyhood, onliness, solitariness, solitude

3. A secluded, isolated or private place.
4. The mature phase of the extratropical cyclone life cycle.
   • warm seclusion