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isolation
A	noun
	1	isolation, closing off
			the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚group action ╚separation ╚isolation, closing off ╚quarantine
	2	isolation
			a country's withdrawal from internal politics; "he opposed a policy of American isolation"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚group action ╚non-engagement; nonparticipation; non-involvement ╚isolation
	3	reclusiveness, isolation
			preference for seclusion or isolation
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚trait ╚nature ╚disposition; temperament ╚solitariness ╚reclusiveness, isolation ╚privacy; privateness; seclusion
	4	isolation
			a feeling of being disliked and alone
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚feeling ╚dislike ╚alienation; disaffection; estrangement ╚isolation
	5	isolation
			(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
		Category Tree: phenomenon ╚process ╚human process ╚psychoanalytic process ╚defense mechanism; defense reaction; defence mechanism; defence reaction; defense; defence ╚isolation
	6	isolation
			a state of separation between persons or groups
		Category Tree: state ╚integrity; unity; wholeness ╚separation ╚isolation ╚privacy; privateness; secrecy; concealment ╚anomie; anomy ╚alienation; estrangement ╚insulation; insularity; insularism; detachment ╚quarantine ╚loneliness; solitariness ╚solitude; purdah

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