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Solitariness

Condition of being solitary.

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Disposition 76% connected

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

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Isolation 76% connected

The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.

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Temperament 76% connected

Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.

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Solitary 74% connected

Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.

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Solitary 74% connected

Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.

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Aloneness 92% connected

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness.

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Loneliness 92% connected

The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.

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the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources

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Corridor noun · 78% connection

an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it

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Defunctness noun · 78% connection

no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species"

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of or relating to the science of ecology; "ecological research"

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Actinozoan noun · 78% connection

sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed

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Alone adjective · 78% connection

Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing.

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Ascetic noun · 78% connection

In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and…

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Bee noun · 78% connection

An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.

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Brake noun · 78% connection

A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal…

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Cloistered adjective · 78% connection

Dwelling in cloisters; solitary.

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Deafly adjective · 78% connection

Lonely; solitary.

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Dearn adjective · 78% connection

Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful.

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Dern adjective · 78% connection

Solitary; sad.

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Desert noun · 78% connection

A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary plac…

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Forlorn noun · 78% connection

A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.

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Greenlet noun · 78% connection

l. (Zool.) One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitar…

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