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recluse (adjective, noun) -
adjective
: marked by withdrawal from society : solitary
noun
: a person who leads a secluded or solitary life
Source : Merriam-Webster
Etymology : Greta Garbo and Howard Hughes were two of the most famously reclusive celebrities of modern times. She had been a great international star, called the most beautiful woman in the world; he had been an aircraft manufacturer and film producer, with one of the greatest fortunes in the world. It seems that Garbo's reclusiveness resulted from her desire to leave her public with only the youthful image of her face. Hughes was terrified of germs, though that was the least of his problems. The word is from Middle English, from Anglo-French reclus, literally, shut away, from Late Latin reclusus, past participle of recludere to shut up, from Latin re- + claudere to close and was first used in the 13th century.
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