'Isolation' definitions:
Definition of 'isolation'
(from WordNet)
noun
A state of separation between persons or groups
noun
A feeling of being disliked and alone
noun
The act of isolating something; setting something apart from others [syn: isolation, closing off]
noun
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
noun
A country's withdrawal from international politics; "he opposed a policy of American isolation"
Definition of 'Isolation'
From: GCIDE
- Isolation \I`so*la"tion\ ([imac]`s[-o]*l[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [Cf. F. isolation.] The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness. --Milman. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'isolation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- out-group,
- outcast,
- 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,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal,
- X ray,
- xenophobia,
- yellow flag,
- yellow jack,
- zoning