isolationnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌaɪ.səlˈeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌaɪ.səlˈeɪ.ʃən/C1 the condition of being alone, especially when this makes you feel unhappy:
The prisoner had been kept in isolation for three days.
After all the visitors had left, she experienced a feeling of complete isolation.
C2 the fact that something is separate and not connected to other things:
I can't think about it in isolation (= separately) - I need some examples of the problem.
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Separateness and isolation in space
- apart
- atomistic
- atomized
- bitty
- cloistered
- distance
- distance yourself from sth
- divorced
- freely
- give sth/sb a wide berth idiom
- hermetically sealed
- loose
- parted
- privacy
- private
- purdah
- secluded
- uninhabited
- untethered
- wide
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