isolation

Meanings

Plural: isolations

Noun

• a state of separation between persons or groups
• a feeling of being disliked and alone
• the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
• a country's withdrawal from international politics
  • "he opposed a policy of American isolation"
• The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
• The act of isolating.
• The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
• The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
• The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
• A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
• A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.

Synonyms

aloneness, closing off, isolation, loneliness, loneness, onehead, oneship, onliness, onlyhood, seclusion, solitariness, solitude

Related Words

insulate, insulation, isolate, isolatedness