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n. The act of isolating.

n. The quality or condition of being isolated. See Synonyms at solitude.

n. The state of being isolated, detached, or separated.

n. The act of isolating.

n. The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).

n. The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture

n. The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others

n. a database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions

n. The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.

n. The state of being isolated or alone.

n. Specifically, removal from communication or contact with others; also, the condition of being so removed.

n. In psychology, the process whereby one selects a certain quality of an object for consideration, to the neglect of other qualities; selection by attention.

n. a state of separation between persons or groups

n. a feeling of being disliked and alone

n. a country's withdrawal from international politics

n. the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others

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

"She felt as if the term isolation ward could not have fit her situation any better."

estrangement    alienation    disaffection    nonparticipation    non-engagement    non-involvement    defense    defence reaction    defence mechanism    defense mechanism   

discriminate isolation    indiscriminate isolation   

isolatedness    insulation    insulate    isolate   

insulation    separation    loneliness   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   

loneliness    separation    poverty    seclusion    misery    humiliation    discomfort    emptiness    degradation    depression