ISOLATION

Definition:

1. [noun] a state of separation between persons or groups
   
   
2. [noun] the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
   Synonyms: closing off
   
   
3. [noun] a feeling of being disliked and alone
   
   
4. [noun] preference for seclusion or isolation
   Synonyms: reclusiveness
   
   
5. [noun] (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
   
   
6. [noun] a country's withdrawal from internal politics; "he opposed a policy of American isolation"
   
   

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Related Words:

• solitude, purdah
• loneliness, solitariness
• quarantine
• insulation, insularity, insularism, detachment
• alienation, estrangement
• anomie, anomy
• privacy, privateness, secrecy, concealment
• quarantine
• privacy, privateness, seclusion