isolaton.
/iːzə(ʊ)ˈlatəʊ//iːzə(ʊ)ˈlɑːtəʊ/ An isolated person, an outcast.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated
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1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxvii. 133 They were nearly all Islanders in the Pequod, Isolatos too, I call such, not acknowledging the common continent of men,..yet..what a set these Isolatos were!
1950 W. H. Auden Enchafèd Flood i. 35 What it feels like to be such an isolatoe, who..is left standing there alone in the wide waste.
1958 New Statesman 6 Sept. 322/2 What most of them failed to see..was that the Negro was also, primarily, an American and faced many of the same problems as the displaced isolato, the white American.
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