English

Noun

reclusiveness ‎(uncountable)

1. The state or characteristic of being reclusive.
   • 2006, Erica Wagner, "First word: People don't love Harper Lee—they love her work", Times Online, London, 4 Feb (retrieved 29 June 2007):

     But of Lee you hear hardly anything at all; she is nearly as famous for her reclusiveness (now there’s an oxymoron) as J. D. Salinger.

Synonyms

• isolation
• publicity-shyness

References

• reclusiveness at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.