eremite means A hermit; a religious recluse, someone who lives alone. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
eremite is pronounced /ˈɛɹ.əˌmaɪt/.
Why “eremite” is a great word
EREMITE — [Noun] A hermit, especially one who lives in solitary asceticism for religious devotion. From Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin erēmīta, from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (erēmítēs, 'inhabitant of a desert'), from ἐρῆμος (erêmos, 'uninhabited, desolate') + -ίτης (-ítēs, 'inhabitant'). First attested c. 1200. Unlike a 'cenobite', who seeks God within the structured murmur of a monastery, or a 'recluse', who may withdraw for any private reason, the eremite is defined by a sacred, chosen desolation. It is the sun-bleached robe kneeling on hard stone, the anchorite walled into a cell beside a village church, the solitary lamp burning at midnight in a forest skete—a vocation not of mere loneliness, but of a deliberate wilderness where one becomes a vessel for the divine.
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- A hermit; a religious recluse, someone who lives alone.