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noun
The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Synonyms: aloneness, seclusion, isolation, loneliness, loneness, onehead, oneship, onlyhood, onliness, solitariness, solitude
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The act of isolating.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: diplomacy, government, politics
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noun
The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, databases, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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noun
the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: closing off
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: separation
Narrower terms: quarantine
noun
a country's withdrawal from international politics
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: non-engagement, nonparticipation, non-involvement
noun
a feeling of being disliked and alone
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: alienation, disaffection, estrangement
noun
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
noun
a state of separation between persons or groups
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: separation
Narrower terms: solitude, purdah, loneliness, solitariness, quarantine, insulation, insularity, insularism, detachment, alienation, estrangement, anomie, anomy, privacy, privateness, secrecy, concealment
History
First attested in 1800. From French isolation, from isolé, placed on an island (thus away from other people). Equivalent to isolate + -ion.
Across languages
121 source translations are retained for this English entry.
