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Solitude

Solitude is chosen, voluntary aloneness, distinct from loneliness, the negative dissatisfaction with one's social life. Covers its definition, historical and cultural meanings, psychological well-being effects, and how enforced isolation differs from chosen solitude.

Solitudo

Solitudo: extinct genus of large insular Mediterranean tortoises (Testudinidae) named by Valenti et al. 2022, defined by distinctive femur anatomy; species robusta (Malta), gymnesica (Menorca), sicula (Sicily).

Soliva

Soliva Ruiz & Pav. (burrweed, onehunga weed) is a small Asteraceae genus in tribe Anthemideae, native Mexico to South America, with about 6 species; Soliva sessilis is a spiny-fruited lawn burweed naturalized worldwide.

Solketal

Solketal, 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolane-4-methanol (C₆H₁₂O₃), is a cyclic ketal of glycerol and acetone produced from biodiesel by-product glycerol and used as a gasoline octane booster and green solvent in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and coatings.

Sollenau

1. SC Sollenau (1. Sport Club Sollenau) is an Austrian football club from Sollenau, Lower Austria, founded 1920, playing at Sportplatz Sollenau (2,000). Known for a 1:10 cup loss to RB Salzburg in 2014 and six Regionalliga Ost seasons (2010-2016); now in 2. Klasse Triestingtal.

Sollentuna

Sollentuna, a municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden, north of Stockholm city, seat Tureberg. 78,033 inhabitants at the turn of 2025/2026; railway since 1866; ranked 14th of 290 in Fokus 2026 quality-of-life survey.

Sollion

Sollion (Σόλλιον, Latinized Sollium), Corinthian colony and harbor town in Acarnania, western Greece; captured by Athens in 431 BCE and given to Palairos; site unlocated, probably on the Plagia peninsula.

Sollipulli

Sollipulli, a 2,282 m stratovolcano in Chile's Andean Southern Volcanic Zone between Llaima and Villarrica, holds a 4-km glacier-filled caldera of non-explosive origin, a VEI 5 Alpehué Plinian eruption about 2,900 years ago, and a rapidly thinning caldera glacier.

Solly March

Solly March (Solomon Benjamin March, born 1994, Eastbourne) is an English left-footed winger and wing-back who made 300 Brighton & Hove Albion appearances from 2011 to 2026, won 2017 promotion, starred under De Zerbi, and was released in June 2026 after repeated ACL injuries.

Solnhofen Limestone

Solnhofener Plattenkalk (Solnhofen Limestone): Upper Jurassic, Tithonian fine-grained platy limestone of Bavaria, Germany, a world-famous fossil Lagerstätte with over 700 species, all twelve Archaeopteryx specimens, and the classic lithographic printing stone.

Solntsevskaya Bratva (Солнцевская братва)

The Solntsevskaya Bratva, or Solntsevo Brotherhood, is a Russian organized crime group formed in the 1980s in Moscow's Solntsevo district, led by Sergei Mikhailov and Viktor Averin.

Solntsevsky Coal Mine

The Solntsevsky Coal Mine (Солнцевский угольный разрез) is an open-pit brown coal mine in southwestern Sakhalin, Russia, and the largest coal operation of the East Mining Company.

Solo (2017 film)

Solo (2017, Malayalam സോളോ) is Bejoy Nambiar's Tamil-Malayalam bilingual anthology starring Dulquer Salmaan in four roles tied to earth, water, fire, and wind; released October 5, 2017, withdrawn in Tamil Nadu after a day, with an altered Malayalam climax.

SOLO 1 trial (NCT02277743)

SOLO 1 (NCT02277743, LIBERTY AD SOLO 1, Regeneron R668-AD-1334) was a phase 3 trial of dupilumab monotherapy in 671 adults with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis, showing 37-38% vs 10% IGA 0/1 response at week 16.

SOLO 2 trial

The SOLO 2 trial, or LIBERTY AD SOLO 2, was a phase 3 study of 708 adults showing dupilumab monotherapy effective for moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis.

Solo Boy

Solo Boy (సోలో బాయ్) is a 2025 Telugu romantic drama directed by P. Naveen Kumar, starring Bigg Boss fame Gautham Krishna as Krishnamurthy, released 4 July 2025, streaming on Aha and JioHotstar.

Sólo con Tu Pareja

Sólo con tu pareja (Love in the Time of Hysteria) is Alfonso Cuarón's 1991 Mexican comedy debut, written with Carlos Cuarón and shot by Emmanuel Lubezki, about a yuppie womanizer tricked into believing he has AIDS.

Solo Leveling (나 혼자만 레벨업)

Solo Leveling (나 혼자만 레벨업, I Alone Level Up) is a Korean web novel by Chugong about E-rank hunter Sung Jinwoo, whose private game System lets him level up; its Redice Studio webtoon spawned an anime, Netmarble's Arise game, and 25-language licensing.

Solo Leveling season 1

Solo Leveling season 1 (나 혼자만 레벨업, 俺だけレベルアップな件) is A-1 Pictures' 12-episode January 2024 anime adapting Chugong's Korean web novel; directed by Shunsuke Nakashige, it follows E-rank hunter Sung Jinwoo, the only person who can level up, and earned 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Solo Mio

Solo Mio is a 2026 Angel Studios romantic comedy directed by Charles and Daniel Kinnane, starring Kevin James as Matt Taylor, an art teacher left at the altar in Rome who takes his honeymoon alone; 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, A- CinemaScore, $26.4M worldwide.

Solo papaya

The Solo papaya is a group of small, pear-shaped papaya cultivars originating in Hawaii in the early twentieth century, grown almost entirely from self-pollinating hermaphrodite plants.

Solo Sikoa

Solo Sikoa (Joseph Yokozuna Fatu, born 1993) is a WWE Raw wrestler, son of Rikishi, brother of The Usos, cousin of Roman Reigns; Bloodline enforcer, MFT leader, US and NXT North American Champion.

Solo Sunny

Solo Sunny is a 1980 DEFA drama directed by Konrad Wolf with Wolfgang Kohlhaase, starring Renate Krößner as an East Berlin schlager singer chasing a solo career; Silver Bear winner and 1.6-million-viewer GDR hit.

Solo, El

Solo, El (Cerro Solo) is a 6,205 m dacitic stratovolcano of nine eruptive centers on the Chile–Argentina border in the Central Andean Volcanic Arc, west of Nevados Ojos del Salado, with Holocene rhyodacitic pyroclastic-flow deposits and no dated eruptions.

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) is Lucasfilm's Han Solo origin film, directed by Ron Howard after Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were fired mid-production; it earned about $393 million worldwide, a franchise low, prompting Disney to scale back Star Wars films.

Solo.io

Solo.io is an American application-networking software company founded by Idit Levine in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2017, building on the Envoy proxy and Istio service mesh.

Solomia Lukyanets (Соломія Андріївна Лук'янець)

Solomia Lukyanets (Соломія Андріївна Лук'янець), Ukrainian operatic soprano; national record holder as Ukraine's youngest opera solo performer (13 years 28 days, 2015), Voice Kids Germany finalist, Triomphe de l'Art Grand Prix winner.

Solomianskyi District

Solomianskyi District (Солом'янський район), a southwest district of Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2001 from the Zaliznychnyi and Zhovtnevyi districts; named after Solomianka, home to the main railway station, Zhuliany airport, and ranked 2nd among Kyiv district administrations in H1 2026.

Solomiya Krushelnytska

Solomiya Krushelnytska (Соломія Крушельницька) was a Ukrainian lyric-dramatic soprano who sang on Europe's leading stages and whose 1904 Madama Butterfly in Brescia rescued Puccini's opera after its failure at La Scala.

Solomon (שְׁלֹמֹה)

Solomon (Hebrew Shlomo, שְׁלֹמֹה), son of David and Bathsheba, biblical third king of Israel (c. 975–926 BCE), builder of the First Temple, famed for wisdom; historicity debated, revered as prophet Sulayman in Islam.