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Not antisocial — just allergic to small talk and fluorescent lighting.
means Someone who withdraws from society and lives in deliberate seclusion, avoiding regular contact with others.
from From Latin recludere—wait, actually the opposite in spirit: it traces to Latin reclusus, past participle of recludere, meaning 'to shut up' or 'enclose' (re- 'back, away' + claudere 'to shut, close'). The word first described monks and hermits who literally had themselves shut away in cells for religious solitude, before it loosened into its modern sense of anyone who shuts the world out.
- etymology
- from latin for shut away
- famous example
- emily dickinson mailed poems, not herself
- myth
- solitude chosen beats loneliness imposed
- spider confusion
- brown recluse bites way rarer than fame suggests