cloistered life
Withdrawn from society
A cloistered life is one spent largely withdrawn from the wider world, especially in a religious community.
Monks and nuns live cloistered lives in monasteries and convents.
The phrase extends to anyone living in seclusion or sheltered from ordinary society: His cloistered life at the university left him unprepared for the real world.
- conventReligious sisters' dwelling
- religious orderVowed spiritual community
- monasticismCloistered religious living
- abbeyMonastic house of worship
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
asceticism · simple living · monastery · hermitage · nun · Rule of St. Benedict · daily prayers · solitude · obedience · anchorite · monastic cell · enclosure · Zen monasteries · cell · vow of poverty · meditation · prayer · silent retreat
- solitudesolitude, alone, isolation, aloneness, seclusion
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, convents
- Catholic monasticismabbeys, abbots, abbesses, brothers, sisters
- monasteriesabbey, abbeys, abbot, abbots, abbess
- nunsnun, nuns, sister, sisters, convent
- vocationcalling, vocation, divine calling, priesthood, religious life
social engagement and worldly involvement
cloistered lifepublic life
Existence in societal view
social life · secular life · civic life · urban life · communal life