reclusiveness
- n a disposition to prefer seclusion or isolation
- A man of studied reclusiveness, Wyeth once described himself as "a secretive bastard.
- And his immersion in character, he says, explains his reclusiveness on the Willard set, his darkened trailer and the way that before his first rat scene, after much discussion .
- McCarthy is famous for two things: his omnivorous curiosity and his extreme reclusiveness.