isolation

1. (uncountable)The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.

   She lived her final year in complete isolation, not wanting to see anybody.

   Isolierung, Isolation

   изоля́цияizoljácija, обособле́ниеobosoblénije, затво́рничествоzatvórničestvo

   ізоля́ціяizoljácija

2. (countable, uncountable)The act of isolating.

   изоля́цияizoljácija

   the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others

3. (countable, uncountable)The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).

   изоля́цияizoljácija

4. (countable, uncountable)The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture

   изоля́цияizoljácija

5. (countable, uncountable)The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)

   Upon returning from the field, he went into isolation for a week so as not to infect anyone with potential diseases.

6. (countable, uncountable)A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.

7. (countable, uncountable)A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.

   (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it

1. I felt a sense of isolation.

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2. Don’t underestimate the pain of isolation.

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3. Algeria's economy doesn't exist in isolation.

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4. Japan ended its period of isolation.

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5. He has a propensity for isolation.

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