isolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɑesəˈlæɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌaɪsəˈlæɪʃən/
ipa: [ˌɑe̯səˈlæɪ̯ʃən]
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: isolations
Etymology: First attested in 1800. From French isolation, from isolé, placed on an island (thus away from other people). Equivalent to isolate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: She lived her final year in complete isolation, not wanting to see anybody.
synonyms: word: aloneness
word: seclusion
word: aloneness
word: isolation
word: loneliness
word: loneness
word: onehead
word: oneship
word: onlyhood
word: onliness
word: seclusion
word: solitariness
word: solitude
glosses: The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
glosses: The act of isolating.
examples: text: As of 1975, diplomatic ostracism is still imposed by the Organization of American States (OAS). The inter-American community also exercises a trade embargo against Cuba. But even within this context of hemispheric isolation, Havana’s diplomacy is strikingly contradictory.
ref: 1975, W. Raymond Duncan, “Problems of Cuban Foreign Policy, chapter 20”, in Irving Louis Horowitz, editor, Cuban Communism, 5th edition, Transaction, published 1985, page 486:
text: Israel could offer to ease North Korea’s isolation with diplomatic recognition, […] ¶ […] But Washington’s strategy of increasing North Korean isolation left no room for back-channel talks with Tel Aviv, […]
ref: September 1993, Jon Brook Wolfsthal, “The Israeli initiative”, in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 49, number 7, page 8:
text: It [Europe] now pressed Washington to begin direct talks with Tehran, but Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, Rice’s point man on Iran, still stressed that diplomatic isolation of Iran—and not diplomatic engagement—was the only acceptable approach for dealing with the Iranian nuclear challenge.
ref: 2009, Dore Gold, The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West, Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, page 49:
topics: diplomacy
government
politics
glosses: The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
raw_tags: of a country
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
examples: text: Upon returning from the field, he went into isolation for a week so as not to infect anyone with potential diseases.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
Derived terms: base isolation
coisolation
deisolation
immunoisolation
in isolation
isolational
isolationary
isolationism
isolationist
isolationistic
isolation pay
isolation play
isolation tank
isolation transformer
managed isolation
matrix isolation
microisolation
optoisolation
postisolation
preisolation
reduced isolation
reisolation
self-isolation
sound isolation
Related terms: insulate
insulation
isolate
isolatedness