hermitism en · NOUN
Etymology
From hermit + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The habits of a hermit, living alone and in isolation.
We have not to examine into the earliest practice of ascetic life and hermitism; the gathering together of secluded societies of celibates and virgins; the superstitious veneration of the relics of holy men […]
1862, John Algernon Clarke, What the Prophets Foretold, page 156:
Synonyms
Translations (1)
de Einsiedlertum (living alone and in isolation)