ISOLATION

isolation, closing off

(noun) the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others

isolation

(noun) a country’s withdrawal from international politics; “he opposed a policy of American isolation”

isolation

(noun) a feeling of being disliked and alone

isolation

(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it

isolation

(noun) a state of separation between persons or groups

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

isolation (countable and uncountable, plural isolations)

(chiefly, uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated.

The state of being away from other people.

The act of isolating.

(diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).

(chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture

(medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others

(databases) a database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.

Source: Wiktionary

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I`so*la"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. isolation.]

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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