Other forms: solitudes
Solitude is being alone, chosen and welcome. Seek solitude, in solitude, the solitude of the hills.
The choosing is what separates it from loneliness — the same state, judged differently — and writers on the subject have insisted on the distinction for centuries. Time alone reliably improves some kinds of thinking. The Latin solus means alone.
1nounsolitudeBeing alone by choice.
“After a busy week, he enjoys the solitude of long walks in the hills.”
solitude is a state of being alone.
You already know sole — the sole survivor, the sole reason. Solitude is the state of the sole person: one chair, one cup, and the door shut because you shut it.
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Latin solitudo comes from solus, alone. Sole and solo are relatives.
Latin
sōlitūdō
Old French
solitude
Middle English
solitude
English, today
solitude
From Middle English solitude, from Old French solitude, from Latin sōlitūdō. by surface analysis, sole + -itude.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA