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quarantine
A place where persons, animals, or plants having contagious diseases, etc. are kept in isolation, or beyond which they may not travel
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  1. A place where persons, animals, or plants having contagious diseases, etc. are kept in isolation, or beyond which they may not travel
  2. The period, orig. 40 days, during which an arriving vessel suspected of carrying contagious disease is detained in port in strict isolation
  3. A condition, period of time, or place in which a person, animal, plant, vehicle, or amount of material suspected of carrying an infectious agent is kept in confinement or isolated in an effort to prevent disease from spreading.
detachment
Absence of prejudice or bias; disinterest:
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  1. Absence of prejudice or bias; disinterest:
  2. The dispatch of a military unit, such as troops or ships, from a larger body for a special duty or mission.
  3. A detaching; separation
solitude
A lonely or deserted place.
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  1. A lonely or deserted place.
  2. The state of being solitary, or alone; seclusion, isolation, or remoteness
  3. The state or quality of being alone or remote from others:
separation
An interval or space that separates; a gap:
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  1. An interval or space that separates; a gap:
  2. The act or process of moving apart or forcing something apart:
  3. The condition of being so sorted or distinguished:
remoteness
The quality of being remote.
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  1. The quality of being remote.
loneliness
The condition or state of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.
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  1. The condition or state of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.
  2. A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.
seclusion
The state of being secluded:
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  1. The state of being secluded:
  2. The act of secluding:
  3. A secluding or being secluded; retirement; isolation; privacy
segregation
The act or process of segregating or the condition of being segregated.
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  1. The act or process of segregating or the condition of being segregated.
  2. The policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as in schools, housing, and public or commercial facilities, especially as a form of discrimination.
  3. A segregating or being segregated; specif., the policy or practice of compelling racial groups to live apart from each other, go to separate schools, use separate social facilities, etc.
confinement
Limitation; restriction; restraint
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  1. Limitation; restriction; restraint
  2. The act of confining or the state of being confined.
  3. Lying-in, time of giving birth
obscurity
The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
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  1. The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
  2. One that is unknown.
  3. The quality or condition of being imperfectly known or difficult to understand:
withdrawal
A retreat or retirement:
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  1. A retreat or retirement:
  2. The act or process of giving up the use of a narcotic drug to which one has become addicted, typically accompanied by distressing physiological and mental effects (withdrawal symptoms)
  3. Discontinuation of the use of an addictive substance. The symptoms of withdrawal include headache, diarrhea, and tremors and can range from mild to life threatening, depending on the extent of the body's reliance on the addictive substance.
retreat
The act or process of moving back or away, especially from something hazardous, formidable, or unpleasant:
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  1. The act or process of moving back or away, especially from something hazardous, formidable, or unpleasant:
  2. An organized group withdrawal from regular activities for a given purpose, as by colleagues meeting away from the office and engaging in exercises for promoting teamwork, creativity, etc.
  3. A period of retirement or seclusion, for an individual or a group, for prayer, study, spiritual renewal, etc.
retirement
The portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
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  1. The portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
  2. A retiring or being retired; specif., withdrawal from work, business, etc. because of age
  3. Withdrawal from one's occupation or position, especially upon reaching a certain age.
privacy
The state of being free from public attention or unsanctioned intrusion:
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  1. The state of being free from public attention or unsanctioned intrusion:
  2. The state of being private; the state of not being seen by others.
  3. One's private life or personal affairs
insulation
A material or substance used in insulating:
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  1. A material or substance used in insulating:
  2. (Engineering) The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, or sound
  3. (Electrical) a medium in which it is possible to maintain an electrical field with little supply of energy from additional sources.
insulation
A material or substance used in insulating:
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  1. A material or substance used in insulating:
  2. (Engineering) The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, or sound
  3. (Engineering) The state of a body so separated.
segregation
(Genetics) The separation of allelic genes into different gametes during meiosis so that a particular gamete receives only one member of a pair of characters
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  1. (Genetics) The separation of allelic genes into different gametes during meiosis so that a particular gamete receives only one member of a pair of characters
  2. The act or process of segregating or the condition of being segregated.
  3. A segregating or being segregated; specif., the policy or practice of compelling racial groups to live apart from each other, go to separate schools, use separate social facilities, etc.
separation
A formal legal severing of the relations between spouses that does not dissolve the marriage as in divorce.
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  1. A formal legal severing of the relations between spouses that does not dissolve the marriage as in divorce.
  2. The act or process of moving apart or forcing something apart:
  3. The condition of being so sorted or distinguished:
sequestration
The taking and holding of property pending resolution of a legal dispute
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  1. The taking and holding of property pending resolution of a legal dispute
  2. (Chemistry) The inhibition or prevention of normal ion behavior by combination with added materials, especially the formation of coordination compounds or chelates of metallic ions.
  3. A sequestering or being sequestered; seclusion; separation
loneliness
The condition or state of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.
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  1. The condition or state of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.
  2. A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.
singleness
(Uncountable) The property of being single.
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  1. (Uncountable) The property of being single.
  2. (Countable) The result or product of being single.
solitariness
The state or quality of being solitary.
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  1. The state or quality of being solitary.
solitude
A lonely or deserted place.
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  1. A lonely or deserted place.
  2. The state of being secluded or uninhabited:
  3. The state or quality of being alone or remote from others:
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  • This was a vacation, not an isolation camp.

  • I love the isolation of my mountain retreat.

  • Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life's shut gate.

  • It is impossible to carry the process of isolation very far.

  • Even the isolation didn't trouble her.

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