Isolation

Quick meaning: Isolation is a noun meaning The act of isolating.

Meaning

The act of isolating.

More Meanings

1. (chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
2. (medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
3. (databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
4. (psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
5. (diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
6. (chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.

Example Sentences

She lived her final year in complete isolation, not wanting to see anybody.

Upon returning from the field, he went into isolation for a week so as not to infect anyone with potential diseases.

Israel could offer to ease North Korea’s isolation with diplomatic recognition, […] ¶ […] But Washington’s strategy of increasing North Korean isolation left no room for back-channel talks with Tel Aviv, […]

As of 1975, diplomatic ostracism is still imposed by the Organization of American States (OAS). The inter-American community also exercises a trade embargo against Cuba. But even within this context of hemispheric isolation, Havana’s diplomacy is strikingly contradictory.

Word Forms

• isolations

Synonyms for isolation

Depending on context, synonyms include aloneness, seclusion, loneliness, loneness, onehead, oneship.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reclusiveness, seclusion, insularity, isolate, alienation, separate.

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