isolation

Nouns

  • (n) a state of separation between persons or groups
  • (n) a feeling of being disliked and alone
  • (n) the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others closing off,
  • (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 country's withdrawal from international politics
    • he opposed a policy of American isolation

Synonyms

closing off

Words of close approximity

isolating
isolationism isolationist isolationistic