Why “hermitry” is a great word
HERMITRY — [Noun] The state, practice, or dwelling place of a hermit. From hermit (from Old French hermite, eremite, from Late Latin eremita, from Greek erēmitēs, "person of the desert," from erēmia, "desert, solitude") + the noun-forming suffix -ry (denoting a condition, practice, or place). Earliest known use from 1882. Unlike "solitude," a temporary or circumstantial aloneness, or "hermitage," the physical cell itself, hermitry is the totality of the chosen vocation. It is the moss-grown stone of a cliffside cave, the patient tending of a bean patch seen by no one, and the long shadow cast by a single candle in a vast night—a quiet, deliberate subtraction from the world's clamorous sum, where the removal of everything else is the only thing that remains.