reclusiveness
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
reclusiveness (uncountable)
- The state or characteristic of being reclusive.
- 2006 February 4, Erica Wagner, “First word: People don't love Harper Lee—they love her work”, in Times Online, London, retrieved 29 June 2007:
- But of Lee you hear hardly anything at all; she is nearly as famous for her reclusiveness (now there’s an oxymoron) as J. D. Salinger.
Synonyms edit
References edit
- “reclusiveness”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.