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hermitude en · NOUN

Etymology

From hermit + -tude.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Synonym of hermitness.
    • Not that he abandoned his aspirations to serve his country and resolved to pass his life in idle pleasure and quiet hermitude... 1909, Katsumaro Nakamura, Shunkichi Akimoto, Lord Ii Naosuké and New Japan, page 63:
    • Thus Ellis is intrigued by the outlook he labels "hermitude." 1999, Robert Booth Fowler, Enduring Liberalism: American Political Thought Since the 1960s, page 84:

Synonyms

hermitness