OSTRACISM Synonyms

• deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

• the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

• the act of forcing out someone or something

• the state of being excluded

• the state of being excommunicated

• a deliberate act of omission

• the act of forcing out someone or something

• a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country

• a person who is expelled from home or country by authority

• the act of expelling a person from their native land

• expel from a country

• the act of forcing out someone or something

• squeezing out by applying pressure

• the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

• a state of separation between persons or groups

• a feeling of being disliked and alone

• the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others

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

• a country's withdrawal from international politics

• the act of rejecting something

• the state of being rejected

• (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign

• the speech act of rejecting

• the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)

• an industrial city in central England; devastated by air raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century