GHETTOIZATION Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

ghettoization

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Definition of ghettoization

as in segregation

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Noun

King joined faith leaders and civil rights advocates from across the country to honor those who challenged housing segregation, racial injustice and systemic inequality decades ago.

— Lila Hempel-Edgers, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
In her order, Sykes barred the government from placing detainees in administrative segregation unless doing so was necessary to address a security threat to staff or the facility, or if a detainee requested it.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of segregation

Noun

Midway into her pregnancy, the 26-year-old feared being put into isolation simply for having a fever, a common misconception.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
The acclaimed documentary captures a 20-year personal chronicle of a family struggling with severe mental illness and social isolation.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of isolation

Noun

These immigrants, who first settled the backcountry of Pennsylvania before pushing farther to the western and southern frontier, brought with them a cultural and linguistic separateness that had an immense impact on the speech of the American heartland.

— Valerie Fridland, Big Think, 21 Apr. 2026
Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.

— Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025

Definition of separateness

Noun

Seal air leaks and improve insulation to stop conditioned air from escaping your home.

— Alora Bopray, USA Today, 30 July 2026
In reality, several popular home projects can quietly do the opposite, adding square footage, glass or appliances without matching improvements to insulation, shade or HVAC capacity.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 30, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026

Definition of insulation

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Billy’s main creative outlet in her years of solitude has been visual art, and her work—abstractions dominated by the geometric forms of Little Death’s air-vent face—seems like a closed circuit of self-therapy.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 31 July 2026
The park also covers more than 3 million acres of mountains, glaciers, rainforests, coastlines, and fjords, giving you plenty of space to explore and find a little solitude.

— Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2026

Definition of solitude

Noun

Clifton Wade Tucker, 51, faces counts of possession of child pornography and invasion of privacy.

— Alexa Newsom, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2026
But the technology is also a snowballing privacy nightmare, according to critics who are fighting back with protests, legislation and websites dedicated to tracking the trackers.

— N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of privacy

Noun

According to the listing, the estate was custom built for the princess, with horse corrals, large stretches of usable land, and enough seclusion to feel removed from the hurly-burly of Los Angeles.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2026
Not all retreats are monastic, and seclusion can easily nourish a hothouse of gossip.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of seclusion

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