English Explanatory Dictionary

isolation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
  2. The act of isolating.
  3. The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
  4. The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
  5. The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
  6. A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
  7. A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.

Pronunciation

/ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Berrely-isolation.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-isolation.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-isolation.wav /ˌɑesəˈlæɪʃən/ /ˌaɪsəˈlæɪʃən/ [ˌɑe̯səˈlæɪ̯ʃən]

Word forms

isolation isolations

Etymology

First attested in 1800. From French isolation, from isolé, placed on an island (thus away from other people). Equivalent to isolate + -ion.

Synonyms

aloneness seclusion isolation loneliness loneness onehead oneship onlyhood onliness solitariness solitude

Related words

insulate insulation isolate isolatedness

Derived words

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

Translations

Bulgarian: отде́ляне Bulgarian: изоли́ране Finnish: eristäminen Greek: απονόνωση Kazakh: оқшаулама Malay: pengasingan Portuguese: isolamento Russian: изоля́ция
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