SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Synonyms

• putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment

• the state of being imprisoned

• the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

• the state of being imprisoned

• 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

• enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease

• isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease

• place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons

• the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others

• the act of secluding yourself from others

• (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes

• a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups

• the act of segregating or sequestering

• confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners

• one who lives in solitude

• characterized by or preferring solitude

• of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies

• lacking companions or companionship

• being the only one; single and isolated from others

• devoid of creatures