noun. The act of isolating.

noun. The quality or condition of being isolated.

noun. The state of being isolated or alone.

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

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

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

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

noun. The act of isolating.

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

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

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

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

noun. a state of separation between persons or groups

noun. a feeling of being disliked and alone

noun. a country's withdrawal from international politics

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

noun. (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."

discriminate isolation  indiscriminate isolation  

insulate  insulation  isolate  isolatedness  

alienation  defence  defence mechanism  defence reaction  defense  

Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  

boredom  degradation  depression  discomfort  emptiness  

Jim Crow  X ray  abstraction  alien  alienation