- reclusiveness
- noun see recluse I
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
reclusiveness
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reclusiveness — noun The state or characteristic of being reclusive. 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. Syn: isolation, publicity, shyness … Wiktionary
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