'reclusion' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe the state of being deliberately cut off from the world or restricted in one's environment. For example, "He chose a life of reclusion in the mountains, away from the hustle and bustle of the city."
The "reclusive spinster" used her reclusion to compose some of the greatest, and for its time, most subversive, poetry in the English language.
His last years were spent in reclusion and were characterized by melancholy and growing religious fervour.
And I am one of them – a Cambridge finalist, attempting to deal with the Oxbridge stress in the only way I know: caffeine hits and reclusion.
Rejecting his record label's suggestions that he work with a reputable producer, Rose assumed complete control over the recording process, employing the crew and musicians on costly retainers, but himself appearing less and less frequently at the studio, as he slipped into a prolonged reclusion that made it increasingly unlikely anything would come from the sessions.
No sooner had her career begun, it seemed, than she retreated into the reclusion usually reserved for more established acts.
It certainly resonates in 2015 when current international instability and conflicts can seem not dissimilar to those that drove White into reclusion; this is a good time to discover, or rediscover, the book, and the reissue, with its illustrated jacket faintly recalling the original, an attractive starting point.
Peter Quennell recalled that Lady Glenconner would greet visitors arranged in an 18th-century tableaux – a sense of fantasy inculcated in her son, Stephen Tennant, whose sayings as a child she published, and who would live out a decorative reclusion at Wilsford surrounded by tropical lizards, polar bear skins and the rainbow glitter of his imagination.
But, as year followed year with neither music nor movie on the horizon, it seemed as if maybe she had just run out of creative steam, retreating into domestic reclusion to raise a family.
My reclusion worried my parents, and my friends thought I was crazy.
His reclusiveness is clearly different in motive from the contemporary reclusions, in other parts of Massachusetts, of Thoreau and Emily Dickinson.
He lived for nearly half a century in bohemian semi-reclusion with Mary in the Roussillon village of Collioure, but in his last years, when he was rich and famous, he acquired another personality again.
