solitude• He spent his free time in solitude, reading or walking in the hills.• Kitty stood against the back wall, stony, her face blotchy from tearswept in solitude.• How strange to emerge from my solitude.• I need solitude in order to paint my pictures.• We have in prospect eight months of solitude, clinging to the edge of the world's coldest, remotestcontinent.• Ella loved the quietsolitude of her weekends.• It was the solitude growing around me, growing under me: this I couldn't take.• Nor did he enjoy the mass, the open aggression of it, being so used to solitude, to hiddendeceits.