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Isolation

Isolation Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Isolation? [n] the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others [n] a country's withdrawal from internal politics; "he opposed a policy of American isolation" [n] preference for seclusion or isolation [n] a feeling of being disliked and alone [n] (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it [n] a state of separation between persons or groups Synonyms \| Synonyms for Isolation: closing off \| reclusiveness Related Terms \| Find terms related to Isolation: abstraction \| alien \| alienation \| aloneness \| aloofness \| anonymity \| apartheid \| apartness \| autism \| autistic thinking \| avoidance mechanism \| blame-shifting \| blood bank \| celibacy \| charity ward \| clinic \| closed meeting \| color bar \| compensation \| confidentiality \| confidentialness \| consultation room \| cordon \| cordon sanitaire \| cordoning off \| decompensation \| defense mechanism \| delivery room \| dereism \| dereistic thinking \| detachment \| disarticulation \| disassociation \| disconnectedness \| disconnection \| discontinuity \| disengagement \| disjointing \| disjunction \| dislocation \| dispensary \| displacement \| dissociation \| disunion \| division \| divorce \| divorcement \| emergency \| emotional insulation \| escape \| escape into fantasy \| escape mechanism \| escapism \| ethnocentrism \| examining room \| exclusiveness \| executive session \| fantasizing \| fantasy \| fever ward \| flight \| foreigner \| hospital room \| incognito \| incoherence \| insularity \| insulation \| intensive care \| isolationism \| Jim Crow \| keeping apart \| know-nothingism \| labor room \| laboratory \| loneliness \| loneness \| lonesomeness \| luxation \| maternity ward \| moving apart \| narrowness \| negativism \| nursery \| operating room \| outcast \| out-group \| outsider \| overcompensation \| parochialism \| parting \| partition \| persona non grata \| pharmacy \| prison ward \| privacy \| private conference \| private room \| privatism \| privatization \| projection \| psychotaxis \| quarantine \| quarantine flag \| race hatred \| racial segregation \| rationalization \| recess \| reclusion \| recovery room \| removal \| resistance \| retirement \| retreat \| rustication \| sanitary cordon \| seclusion \| secrecy \| segmentation \| segregation \| semi-private room \| separateness \| separation \| separatism \| sequestration \| single blessedness \| snobbishness \| sociological adjustive reactions \| solitariness \| solitude \| splendid isolation \| stranger \| subdivision \| sublimation \| substitution \| subtraction \| surgery \| therapy \| tightness \| treatment room \| ward \| wishful thinking \| wish-fulfillment fantasy \| withdrawal \| X ray \| xenophobia \| yellow flag \| yellow jack \| zoning See Also \| alienation \| alienation \| anomie \| concealment \| defence \| defence mechanism \| defence reaction \| defense \| defense mechanism \| defense reaction \| detachment \| disaffection \| estrangement \| estrangement \| insularism \| insularity \| insulation \| loneliness \| non-engagement \| non-involvement \| nonparticipation \| privacy \| privacy \| privateness \| privateness \| purdah \| quarantine \| quarantine \| seclusion \| secrecy \| separation \| separation \| solitariness \| solitariness \| solitude Isolation In Webster's Dictionary \I`so*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. isolation.] The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness. --Milman.

Isolation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Isolation?

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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Isolation: closing off | reclusiveness

Isolation In Webster's Dictionary

\I`so*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. isolation.]
The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated;
insulation; separation; loneliness. --Milman.

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