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Isolation

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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

polysemous

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
closing off
plural
Isolations
possessive
Isolation's
pluralpossessive
Isolations'