WordNet: isolation

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

• domain: topic psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology

• hypernym defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction

isolation

• (englanti) isolate (derivationally related)
• (suomi) eristäytyminen (synonyymi)