Isolation
[aɪsə'leɪʃ(ə)n] or [,aɪsə'leʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others.
(noun.) a country's withdrawal from international politics; 'he opposed a policy of American 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.
(noun.) a state of separation between persons or groups.
Edited by Darrell--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Separation, disconnection, insulation, segregation, detachment.
Checker: Sinclair
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Segregation, detachment, disconnection, insularity, self-containedness
ANT:Organization, co-membership, community, connection, concatenation, continuity
Checked by Barlow
Unserious Contents or Definition
From Eng. ice, meaning cold, and Lat. solus, alone. Alone in the cold.
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Examples
- The counterpart of the isolation of mind from activities dealing with objects to accomplish ends is isolation of the subject matter to be learned. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The soft isolation of the falling day enveloped them: they seemed lifted into a finer air. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- To call them virtues in their isolation is like taking the skeleton for the living body. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Their isolation, and consequently their purely arbitrary going together, is canceled; a unified developing situation takes its place. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Thus we see her in a strange state of isolation. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The isolation of aims and values which we have been considering leads to opposition between them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Our geographical isolation preserves us from any vivid sense of national contrast: our imaginations are not stirred by different civilizations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The look suggested isolation, but it revealed something more. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Yet who does not feel its isolation in that brutal city? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- How perfect it was, how VERY perfect it was, this silvery isolation and interplay. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Alas, this isolation--this banishment from my kind! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They experienced a violent revulsion towards that policy of isolation that had broken down in 1917. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Soon tiring of idleness and isolation he sent a cry from Macedonia to his old friend Milt Adams, who was in Boston, and whom he wished to rejoin if he could get work promptly in the East. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Governesses,' she observed, 'must ever be kept in a sort of isolation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They ignored the great possibilities of blended races and of special local isolations and variations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Bertram