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How to pronounce reclusiveness in English?

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Type Words
Type of loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness, aloneness
Has types privacy, privateness, seclusion
Derivation reclusive

Examples of reclusiveness

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He also has Tourette's syndrome, which has contributed to his reclusiveness.
From the sacbee.com
Ol'Blue Eyes's reclusiveness only made the subject more compelling.
From the boston.com
Like Domino, Charles was known for his reclusiveness, Johnson added.
From the bostonherald.com
These outward signs of reclusiveness prompted much speculation.
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Despite Yeltsin's early populism, he has always mistrusted others and tended toward reclusiveness.
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The few school friends who have surfaced have commented on little aside from his reclusiveness.
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There's a tendency to dismiss talk of her reclusiveness as lazy thinking, but it's not without substance.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Enigma, reclusiveness, absence and rumour are a heady brew.
From the independent.co.uk
The reclusiveness only added to his mystique.
From the nzherald.co.nz
More examples
  • A disposition to prefer seclusion or isolation
  • (reclusive) recluse: withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life"
  • (reclusive) cloistered: providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot"
  • A recluse is someone in isolation who hides away from the attention of the public, a person who lives in solitude, i.e. seclusion from intercourse with the world. The word is from the Latin recludere, which means "shut up" or "sequester".
  • The state or characteristic of being reclusive
  • (reclusive) Of, characterized by, or preferring privacy and isolation; secluded