A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite. / A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.

plural of hermit

to isolate oneself; to become a hermit / (mathematics) to cause to become Hermitian

simple past tense and past participle of hermitize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hermitize

present participle of hermitize

Of, pertaining to, or typical of a hermit

(mathematics) the condition of being Hermitian

Pertaining to a hermit; reclusive.

(mathematics) The process of hermitizing.