English Explanatory Dictionary

two solitudes

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The historical and, by some accounts, current dysfunctional relationship between the Anglophone and Francophone groups in Canada, characterized by poor communication and mutual exclusion.

Word forms

two solitudes

Etymology

First used by German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) and applied to Canadian society in the title of a 1945 novel by Canadian author Hugh MacLennan.

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