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
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(n) a country's withdrawal from international politics
- he opposed a policy of American isolation