Isolation
nounid
74900·updated May 18, 2026verified
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
polysemous
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Entity Type
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unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- closing off
- plural
- Isolations
- possessive
- Isolation's
- pluralpossessive
- Isolations'
Framework definitions
- §1
- the act of isolating something
- §2
- a country's withdrawal from international politics
- §3
- a feeling of being disliked and alone
- §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 state of separation between persons or groups
- §1 · legacy_primary
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with itDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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