Reclusive means choosing to live away from company. A reclusive writer, became reclusive, reclusive and private.
The choosing is essential, since somebody reclusive has withdrawn rather than been left alone. It is applied to writers and to the very rich more than to anybody else, which says something about who gets to withdraw.
1adjectivereclusiveChoosing to live away from company.
“The reclusive millionaire hasn't been seen in public for years.”
reclusive is a quality.
Latin
reclūdō — to disclose, to open
Old French
reclus
English
recluse
English, today
reclusive
Built from
From recluse + -ive. recluse comes from Old French reclus, past participle of reclure, from Latin reclūdō (“to disclose, to open”), from re- + claudō (“close”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA