From Medieval Latin -, from Latin seclusio, from secludere.

• IPA: /səˈkluːʒən/

seclusion

1. The act of secluding, shutting out or keeping apart.
2. The state of being secluded or shut out, as from company, society, the world, etc.; solitude.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC ↗, page 183 ↗:

     Madame de Mercœur was at first unwilling that Francesca should share her seclusion; but her young companion was too much in earnest to be refused. Francesca was still depressed by her recent parting with Guido, and clung to Henriette as her only friend,—she would have felt so utterly alone with Marie; besides, she too wished to pray for the absent and the dear.

3. A secluded, isolated or private place.
4. (meteorology) The mature phase of the extratropical cyclone life cycle.

   warm seclusion

• seclude
• secluse
• secluseness
• seclusionist
• seclusive

• French: séclusion, isolement
• German: Abgeschiedenheit, Abschottung, Absonderung
• Portuguese: reclusão
• Russian: уедине́ние