seclusiveness

Alcala had been brought up in aristocratic seclusiveness, and his besetting sin was pride.

After that came the irksome interval of seclusiveness,—now to be succeeded by a prolonged period of chagrin: for the dropping of the billet-doux, and the endearing speech, had put an end to my hopes—as effectually as if I had seen Mercedes enfolded in Francisco’s arms.

Only Richard Manlove, also an army doctor, who shared his bungalow, had penetrated beyond the outer-rampart of his seeming seclusiveness—"Dicky" Manlove whom Trent first saw out in dead Mesopotamia.

Also by unusual seclusiveness, frequent talking or reading about drugs, loss of appetite, increased thirst, constipation.

In the seclusiveness of the German, there was always so much longing for companionship; indeed at the bottom of the very loneliness that made him wicked lay always the wish to love, the wish to be loved.