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isolation - 14 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | isolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seclusion |
| Synonyms: | concealment, confinement, desolation, detachment, exile, hiding, privacy, quarantine, retreat, segregation, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, monkhood, privateness, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, seclusiveness, sequestration |
| Main Entry: | backwoods |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | forests; land distant from settled area |
| Synonyms: | backcountry, boondocks*, frontier, hinterland, interior, isolation, outback, woodland, rural area, sticks, terra incognita, timberland |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dissociation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | detachment, separation |
| Synonyms: | break, disconnection, division, divorce, isolation, segregation, disengagement, disjunction, distancing, disunion, severance |
| Antonyms: | association, attachment, connection, union |
| Main Entry: | ostracism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | banishment |
| Synonyms: | avoidance, boycott, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expulsion, isolation, rejection, blackballing, cold-shouldering, 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: | confidence, dark, darkness, hiding, hush, isolation, mystery, privacy, reticence, seclusion, silence, solitude, stealth, suppression, clandestineness, confidentiality, covertness, furtiveness, retirement, secretiveness, secretness, surreptitiousness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, publicity, revelation, forthrightness, openness |
| Main Entry: | segregation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | separation |
| Synonyms: | apartheid, discrimination, dissociation, division, isolation, partition, seclusion, disunion, exlusion, splitting up |
| Main Entry: | solitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aloneness |
| Synonyms: | confinement, desert, detachment, emptiness, isolation, loneliness, privacy, quarantine, seclusion, silence, waste, wasteland, wilderness, withdrawal, loneness, lonesomeness, peace and quiet, reclusiveness, retirement, separateness, solitariness |
| Antonyms: | companionship, friendship, togetherness |
| Main Entry: | homesickness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nostalgia |
| Synonyms: | alienation, isolation, loneliness, longing, unhappiness, rootlessness, yearning for home |
| Main Entry: | solitary confinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confinement in isolation |
| Synonyms: | isolation, solitary, holding cell, lockdown, the hole |
| Main Entry: | selecting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | choosing |
| Synonyms: | appointment, choice, denomination, determination, determining, election, isolation, selection, separation, appointing, culling, denominating, electing, indicating, isolating, picking, separating |
| Main Entry: | desolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uninhabitated area; barrenness |
| Synonyms: | bareness, desert, devastation, dissolution, extinction, isolation, loneliness, ruin, solitude, waste, wreck, bleakness, forlornness, solitariness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | civilization |
| Main Entry: | imprisonment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forcible detention |
| Synonyms: | bondage, captivity, captivity, confinement, custody, duress, incarceration, isolation, quarantine, restraint, durance, immuration, remand, thraldom, thralldom |
| Antonyms: | freedom, liberty |
| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance; mystery |
| Synonyms: | blindness, concealment, isolation, privacy, seclusion, secrecy, denseness, inscrutability, unawareness |
| Antonyms: | cognizance, intelligence, sense, sensibility, understanding, enlightening |
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