Synonyms of sequestration

sequestration

noun

ˌsē-kwə-ˈstrā-shən 

as in solitude

the state of being alone or kept apart from others

what would you bring for sequestration on a desert island?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• solitude
• isolation
• privacy
• segregation
• loneliness
• insulation
• aloneness
• seclusion
• separateness
• confinement
• secludedness
• retirement
• solitariness
• internment
• withdrawal
• vacuum
• quarantine
• incarceration
• lonesomeness
• ghettoization

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• society
• company
• fellowship
• companionship
• camaraderie
• comradeship

Examples of sequestration in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The country’s critical transition to clean energy will be accelerated in specific technological directions—such as electricity storage, grid modernization, hydrogen fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, electric vehicles, and carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere and oceans. —John Deutch, Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2022

Indeed, carbon capture and sequestration is analogous to scrubbers – devices that the EPA has required for decades to remove pollutants such as fine particulates, sulfur dioxide and mercury from power plant smokestacks. —Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation, 1 May 2024

Kelp is this incredible natural sequestration mechanism for holding onto carbon. —Matt Thompson, Spin, 22 Aug. 2023

One of the jurors (a Joe Pesci imitator) evidently broke the rules of sequestration. —David Remnick, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024