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| allopatric |
living in different geographic areas or in isolation, used esp. in reference to closely related species or to different populations of a single species. [1/2 definitions] |
| desolation |
a feeling of loneliness and isolation. [1/4 definitions] |
| Moab Isolation Center |
a special U.S. internment camp located near Moab, Utah, occupied in 1943 by American citizens of Japanese descent who had been deemed to be "trouble-makers" during their previous internment at ordinary camps created for the holding of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The conditions at the Moab Isolation Center were harsher than at other camps. At its peak, there were about fifty people being held there. |
| postisolation |
combined form of isolation. |
| quarantine |
punitive isolation enforced for political or social reasons. [1/4 definitions] |
| recluse |
a person who lives in voluntary isolation from others. [1/2 definitions] |
| reclusive |
tending to separate oneself from society and live in secluded isolation. |
| schizophrenia |
a severe and often incurable mental disorder that is marked by visual and esp. auditory hallucinations, intellectual and emotional isolation from others, and unpredictable behavior. [1/2 definitions] |
| segregate |
to require or enforce the separation or isolation of (a race, religious sect, class, or the like) from the dominant group in a society or from the society at large. [1/6 definitions] |
| self-isolation |
combined form of isolation. |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. [1/2 definitions] |
| solitary confinement |
the confinement of a prisoner in complete isolation from others, usu. used as a form of punishment. |
| solitude |
the condition of living or being by oneself; isolation. [1/3 definitions] |
| theater of the absurd |
a form of avant-garde theatrical production that stresses the individual's isolation in a meaningless or bizarre world. |
| vacuum |
a state of isolation from most environmental or social influences. [1/5 definitions] |
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