Eremitical: alternatives and connections

The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spon…

the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of ener…

An aversion to the company of men; a love of solitude.

Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.

The origination of living matter from non-living. See Abiogenesis.

A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- op…

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of…

A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.

One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.

An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young w…

Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.

A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so…

A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as,…

Dismal; gloomy with solitude.

Dismalness; gloomy solitude.

The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inc…

instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others; "he is a gregarious person who avoids solitude"

A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.