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isolation
/ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/
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What does isolation mean?
noun
- The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
- The act of isolating.
- The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
More meanings (4)
noun
- The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
- The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
- A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
- A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/
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Yan had noiselessly withdrawn, and I experienced a curious sense of isolation from my fellows--from the whole of the Western world.
Macedonia's geographical isolation, technological backwardness, and potential political instability place it far down the list of countries of interest to Western investors.
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To have an interest is to take things as entering into such a continuously developing situation, instead of taking them in isolation.
It will be well not to be too much disturbed by the thought of either isolation or entanglement of pacifists and militarists.
One chief cause of the far-reaching distress wrought by great Asiatic famines has been the almost complete commercial isolation of Asiatic communities.