Isolation - Definition
isolation
n 1: a state of separation between persons or groups
2: a feeling of being disliked and alone
3: the act of isolating something; setting something apart from
others [syn: isolation, closing off]
4: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an
unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion
originally associated with it
5: a country's withdrawal from international politics; "he
opposed a policy of American isolation"