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solitariness

UK/ˈsɒlɪt(ə)ɹɪnəs/
nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — solitary sits at #4,543Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Solitariness is the quality of being habitually apart from others. The solitariness of the house.

It is treated as a trait of a person or a place rather than a state anybody chose. Solitariness is not the same as solitude, which is aloneness somebody seeks out.

Tanya Dedyukhina · CC BY 3.0

Definitions of solitariness

  1. 1nounsolitarinessThe quality of being habitually apart from others, treated as a trait of a person or place rather than as the peaceful aloneness someone seeks out.C2

    “The solitariness of the farm was the reason they bought it.”

solitariness is a quality.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    sōlitārius

  2. Middle English

    solitarie

  3. English

    solitary

  4. English, today

    solitariness

From solitary + -ness. solitary comes from Middle English solitarie, borrowed from Latin sōlitārius. a doublet of solitaire.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

solitariness in the wild

  • There is a cave on top of this hill, where Guru used to visit for rest, solitariness and meditation tapas.

    Aruvippuram

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the sōlitārius family

solitarysolitaire

solitariness — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others