isolation

noun7

1. •
   The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.

   • She lived her final year in complete isolation, not wanting to see anybody.
2. •
   The act of isolating.
3. •
   The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
4. •
   The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)

   • Upon returning from the field, he went into isolation for a week so as not to infect anyone with potential diseases.
5. •
   The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
6. •
   A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
7. •
   A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.