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insulation

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of insulation

the state of being alone or kept apart from others
  • she had grown up in such rural insulation that sheʼd never met anyone of a different race
Synonyms of insulation

aloneness, isolation, privacy, secludedness, seclusion, segregation, separateness, sequestration, solitariness, solitude
Words Related to insulation

loneliness, lonesomeness

vacuum

confinement, incarceration, internment, quarantine

retirement, withdrawal

ghettoization
Near Antonyms of insulation

camaraderie, companionship, company, comradeship, fellowship, society

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