Meaning of ISOLATION
| Pronunciation: | | `Isu'leyshun
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- [n] the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
- [n] a country's withdrawal from internal politics; "he opposed a policy of American isolation"
- [n] preference for seclusion or isolation
- [n] a feeling of being disliked and alone
- [n] (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
- [n] a state of separation between persons or groups
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| | Synonyms: | | closing off, reclusiveness |
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| | See Also: | | alienation, alienation, anomie, concealment, defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction, detachment, disaffection, estrangement, estrangement, insularism, insularity, insulation, loneliness, non-engagement, non-involvement, nonparticipation, privacy, privacy, privateness, privateness, purdah, quarantine, quarantine, seclusion, secrecy, separation, separation, solitariness, solitariness, solitude | |
| Products Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Isolation
As the three Remnants factions attempt to gain control of Mother, the computer that runs the ship they depend on for survival, their battle propels them to a shocking realization, and to the discovery of new enemies. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \I`so*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. isolation.]
The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated;
insulation; separation; loneliness. --Milman.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Any procedure in which a given species of organism, present in a particular sample or environment, is obtained in pure culture. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, outcast, out-group, 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, wishful thinking, wish-fulfillment fantasy, withdrawal, X ray, xenophobia, yellow flag, yellow jack, zoning |
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