solitude

Etymology

From Middle English solitude, from Old French solitude; synchronically, sole + -itude.

noun

1. Aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.
   Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires, Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires. 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2
2. A lonely or deserted place.
   Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease! He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace. 1813, Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos, Canto 2, stanza 20