MODERN LIFE
What is a constant stream of virtual contact that keeps us connected to the electronic hive?
CONNECTIVITY
What describes someone who is fond of company and tends to live in groups?
GREGARIOUS
What describes the great contemporary fear of being unknown or unrecognized?
ANONYMITY
What was democratized by the Reformation and secularized by Romanticism?
SOLITUDE
What describes having security from violation or infringement?
INVIOLABLE
What technological device created a culture of celebrity?
CAMERA
What describes someone who makes judgments without being influenced by emotions?
DISPASSIONATE
What has become the substitute for genuine connection in modern life?
VISIBILITY
What practice involves passive receptivity to the world, contrary to boredom?
IDLENESS
What describes the search for wisdom through self-examination?
INTROSPECTION
What describes the process of making a condition or situation less severe?
PALLIATE
What describes something that has been reduced in strength or intensity?
ATTENUATED
What quality validates us by being seen by others in contemporary society?
RECOGNITION
What was the essential role that helped transform religious solitude?
READING
What describes the integrity of self maintained through isolation?
SELFHOOD
What modern practice has replaced journals for creating self-identity?
SOCIALMEDIA
What describes the state of being enclosed in one's unique identity?
SINGULARITY
What describes the relationship between sociability and solitude in Romantic thought?
DIALECTIC
What was the great emotion of the TV generation?
BOREDOM
What describes the process of securing one's independent identity?
SELFPOSSESSION
What describes the contemporary psychological model of human consciousness?
NETWORKEDMIND
What represents the spiritual state of being untouched by the world?
VIRGINITY
What describes the lost capacity for sustained mental isolation?
MENTALSOLITUDE
What represents the transition from prophet to poet as social seer?
ROMANTICISM
What describes the hidden depths of self that modern society fails to recognize?
THOREAU'SDARKNESS