reclusiveness

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English

Etymology

reclusive +‎ -ness

Noun

reclusiveness (uncountable)

The state or characteristic of being reclusive.
- 2006 February 4, Erica Wagner, “First word: People don't love Harper Lee—they love her work”, in Times Online, London, retrieved 29 June 2007:
  But of Lee you hear hardly anything at all; she is nearly as famous for her reclusiveness (now there’s an oxymoron) as J. D. Salinger.

Synonyms

References

“reclusiveness”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

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