recluses
Shunners of company
Recluses is the plural of recluse—people who withdraw from society and live in solitude.
The word suggests deliberate isolation rather than mere loneliness: The mansion was home to two elderly recluses who hadn't been seen in years.
Recluses may be eccentric hermits, religious contemplatives, or simply private individuals who prefer their own company to social life.
People choosing isolation
- lonersPeople preferring isolation
- introvertsPeople preferring minimal socializing
- shut-insThose confined indoors
- isolatesKeeps separate from others
solitaries · homebodies · withdrawn · antisocial · private · alone · unsociable · detached
Cloistered religious men
- nunsFemale religious monastics
- asceticsPeople practicing severe self-discipline
- contemplativesThose practicing sustained reflection
- mysticsSpiritual insight seekers
desert fathers · hermitages · monasteries · meditation · renunciation · vows · silence · prayer
Excessive keepers of things
- agoraphobicsThose fearing open spaces
- shut-insThose confined indoors
- Howard HughesEccentric billionaire pilot
- estatesLarge property holdings
mansions · eccentrics · paranoid · mysterious · secretive · elusive · enigmatic · private
hermits
People choosing isolation
- lonersPeople preferring isolation
- introvertsPeople preferring minimal socializing
- shut-insThose confined indoors
isolates · solitaries · homebodies · withdrawn · antisocial · private · alone · unsociable · detached · aloof
monks
Cloistered religious men
- nunsFemale religious monastics
- asceticsPeople practicing severe self-discipline
- contemplativesThose practicing sustained reflection
mystics · desert fathers · hermitages · monasteries · meditation · renunciation · vows · silence · prayer · fasting
hoarders
Excessive keepers of things
- agoraphobicsThose fearing open spaces
- shut-insThose confined indoors
- Howard HughesEccentric billionaire pilot
estates · mansions · eccentrics · paranoid · mysterious · secretive · elusive · enigmatic · private · unseen
spiders
Web-spinning eight-legged creatures
burrows · nocturnal · hiding · nests · dens · solitary animals · lairs · caves · wildlife · creatures
- outsidersoutcast, outsider, outcasts, pariah, misfit
- asceticsascetic, ascetics, hermit, hermits, anchorite
- recluseshermits, solitaries, loners, shut-ins, isolates
- historical womenCleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Marie Curie
- Nonconformistsnonconformist, rebels, rebel, misfits, misfit
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
reclusessocialites
People famous for attending events
extroverts · social butterflies · party animals · networkers · minglers
reclusescelebrities
Well-known public figures
public figures · attention seekers · media personalities · exhibitionists · publicity hounds
- brown recluseVenomous North American spider
- brown recluse spiderVenomous North American arachnid
- recluse spiderSecretive venomous arachnid species
- brown recluse biteVenomous arachnid puncture wound
recluse, reclusive, reclusion, reclusively, reclusiveness, recluseness