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isolation: the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others; a country's withdrawal from international politics; "he opposed a policy of American isolation"; a feeling of being disliked and alone; (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it; a state of separation between persons or groups

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loneliness collapse: the state of being alone in solitary isolation

solitude collapse: a solitary place; a state of social isolation

privacy collapse: the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others; the condition of being concealed or hidden

celibacy collapse: an unmarried status

seclusion collapse: the act of secluding yourself from others

secrecy collapse: the trait of keeping things secret

separateness collapse: political independence; "seeking complete political separateness for Taiwan"

Jim Crow collapse: a crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails

apartheid collapse: a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa

isolationism collapse: a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations

nonunion collapse: not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade union; "nonunion carpenters"; "a nonunion contractor"

separatism collapse: a disposition toward schism and secession from a larger group; the principles and practices of separatists; "separatism is a serious problem in Quebec"; "demands for some form of separatism on grounds of religion have been perceived as a threat to mainstream education"

dislocation collapse: the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue; "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London"; an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity; a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

disassociation collapse: the state of being unconnected in memory or imagination; "I could not think of him in disassociation from his wife"

hospital room collapse: a room in a hospital for the care of patients

operating room collapse: a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"

intensive care collapse: close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions

dispensary collapse: clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed

quarantine collapse: isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease; enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease; place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons; "My dog was quarantined before he could live in England"

overcompensation collapse: excessive compensation; (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite

segregation collapse: the act of segregating or sequestering; "sequestration of the jury"; a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups; (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes

segmentation collapse

disengagement collapse: to break off a military action with an enemy

stranger collapse: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

laboratory collapse

escapism collapse

persona non grata collapse: a diplomat who is unacceptable to the government to which he is sent

parochialism collapse: a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish

exclusiveness collapse

zoning collapse: dividing an area into zones or sections reserved for different purposes such as residence and business and manufacturing etc

out group collapse

disconnection collapse: the act of breaking a connection

incognito collapse: without revealing one's identity; "in Holland he lived incognito as a carpenter in the shipyards of the East India company"

nursery collapse: a child's room for a baby

disunion collapse: the termination or destruction of union

subtraction collapse: the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks"; an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"

clinic collapse: a healthcare facility for outpatient care; meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity; a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists

sublimation collapse: (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable; (chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid

outsider collapse: a contestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win

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