| Main Entry: | isolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seclusion |
Synonyms: |
aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, concealment, confinement, desolation, detachment, exile, hiding, monkhood, privacy, privateness, quarantine, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, retreat, seclusiveness, segregation, sequestration, solitude, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | backwoods |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | forests; land distant from settled area |
Synonyms: |
backcountry, boondocks, frontier, hinterland, interior, isolation, outback, rural area, sticks, terra incognita, timberland, woodland |
| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance; mystery |
Synonyms: |
blindness, concealment, denseness, inscrutability, isolation, privacy, seclusion, secrecy, unawareness |
Antonyms: |
cognizance, enlightening, intelligence, sense, sensibility, understanding |
| Main Entry: | desolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uninhabitated area; barrenness |
Synonyms: |
bareness, bleakness, desert, devastation, dissolution, extinction, forlornness, isolation, loneliness, ruin, solitariness, solitude, waste, wildness, wreck |
Antonyms: |
civilization |
| Main Entry: | dissociation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | detachment, separation |
Synonyms: |
break, disconnection, disengagement, disjunction, distancing, disunion, division, divorce, isolation, segregation, severance |
Antonyms: |
association, attachment, connection, union |
| Main Entry: | ostracism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | banishment |
Synonyms: |
avoidance, blackballing, boycott, cold-shouldering, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expulsion, isolation, rejection, shunning |
| Main Entry: | privacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | solitude, secrecy |
Synonyms: |
aloofness, clandestineness, concealment, confidentiality, isolation, one's space, penetralia, privateness, quiet, retirement, retreat, seclusion, separateness, separation, sequestration, solitude |
Antonyms: |
publicity, publicness, sociableness |
| Main Entry: | secrecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concealment |
Synonyms: |
clandestineness, confidence, confidentiality, covertness, dark, darkness, furtiveness, hiding, hush, isolation, mystery, privacy, reticence, retirement, seclusion, secretiveness, secretness, silence, solitude, stealth, suppression, surreptitiousness |
Antonyms: |
forthrightness, honesty, openness, publicity, revelation |
| Main Entry: | segregation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | separation |
Synonyms: |
apartheid, discrimination, dissociation, disunion, division, exlusion, isolation, partition, seclusion, splitting up |
| Main Entry: | solitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aloneness |
Synonyms: |
confinement, desert, detachment, emptiness, isolation, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, peace and quiet, privacy, quarantine, reclusiveness, retirement, seclusion, separateness, silence, solitariness, waste, wasteland, wilderness, withdrawal |
Antonyms: |
companionship, friendship, togetherness |