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RECLUSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reclusiveness mean? 

RECLUSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun RECLUSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. a disposition to prefer seclusion or isolationplay

  Familiarity information: RECLUSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RECLUSIVENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A disposition to prefer seclusion or isolation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

aloneness; loneliness; lonesomeness; solitariness (a disposition toward being alone)

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

privacy; privateness; seclusion (the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others)

Derivation:

reclusive (providing privacy or seclusion)

reclusive (withdrawn from society; seeking solitude)


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