Definition of "eremitism" [er•e•mit•ism]

• The state of being a hermit; seclusion from society. (noun)

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• "This is how coenobitism grew out of eremitism not only in Calabria, but in every part of the world which has been afflicted with these eccentrics."
• "Together with the others, it succeeded to a period of eremitism of solitary anchorites whose dwellings honeycombed the warm slopes that confront the"