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isolation

noun

1 isolation

A state of separation between persons or groups.

Roget 752: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, ... show more

Roget 893: seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; snugness etc. adj.; delitescence; rustication, rus in urbe [Lat.]; solitude; solitariness etc. ... show more

Roget 44: disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement; discontinuity etc. 70; abjunction; cataclasm; inconnection; abstraction, abstractedness; ... show more

Roget 87: unity; oneness etc. adj.; individuality; solitude etc. (seclusion) 893; isolation etc. (disjunction) 44; unification ... show more

Polish: izolacja, wyizolowanie, odosobnienie, separacja

2 isolation

A feeling of being disliked and alone.

3 isolation

The act of isolating something; setting something apart from others.

synonym: closing off.

Dutch: afgrendeling, afzondering, isolatie, isolering

4 isolation

psychiatry A defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it.

5 isolation

A country's withdrawal from international politics.


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