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Reclusive

Affording retirement from society.

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Private 84% connected

Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not pu…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Private 84% connected

Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not pu…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Cloistered 92% connected

of Cloister

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recluse 92% connected

Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Secluded 92% connected

of Seclude

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Sequestered 92% connected

of Sequester

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Withdrawn 92% connected

of Withdraw

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Abscondence noun · 78% connection

Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding.

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Association noun · 78% connection

Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a b…

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Background noun · 78% connection

A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight.

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Cloister verb · 78% connection

A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.

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Closet noun · 78% connection

A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.

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Country seat unknown · 78% connection

A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.

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Delitescence noun · 78% connection

Concealment; seclusion; retirement.

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Feature noun · 78% connection

a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine; "they ran a feature on retirement planning"

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Fellow noun · 78% connection

A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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Fireside noun · 78% connection

A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.

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Forth adverb · 78% connection

Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in…

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Infrequency noun · 78% connection

The state of not being frequented; solitude; isolation; retirement; seclusion.

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Initiation noun · 78% connection

The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite o…

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Loneliness noun · 78% connection

Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.

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Lucubration noun · 78% connection

That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition.

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Member noun · 78% connection

One of the persons composing a society, community, or the like; an individual forming part of an association; as, a member of the soci…

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Monastery noun · 78% connection

A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such…

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Network noun · 78% connection

an interconnected system of things or people; "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of peop…

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