isolation

[I`so*la·tion]

Isolation means completely alone, like the stranded skiers who were in total isolation after an avalanche stranded them at the top of a mountain.

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

Noun
the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others

Noun
a country''s withdrawal from internal politics; "he opposed a policy of American isolation"

Noun
preference for seclusion or isolation

Noun
a feeling of being disliked and alone

Noun
(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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Noun
a state of separation between persons or groups


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


Isolation

I`so*la"tion , n. [Cf. F. isolation.] The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness. Milman.

Isolator

I"so*la`tor , n. One who, or that which, isolates.

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

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Usage Examples

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

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