Detachment vs Isolation - What's the difference?
detachment | isolation | Synonyms |
(uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.
(uncountable) The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
(uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; aloofness.
(uncountable) Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
(uncountable, military) The separation of a military unit from the main body for particular purpose or a special mission.
(countable, military) The unit so dispatched.
(countable, military) A permanent unit organized for special duties.
(countable) Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.
(chiefly, uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated.
The act of isolating.
(diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
* 1975 , W. Raymond Duncan, “Problems of Cuban Foreign Policy”, chapter 20 of (editor), Cuban Communism , Fifth Edition, Transaction (publisher, 1985),
* 1993 September, Jon Brook Wolfsthal, “The Israeli initiative”, in , Volume 49, Number 7,
* 2009 , Dore Gold, The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West , Regnery Publishing, ISBN 9781596985711,
(chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
(medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others
(computing) a database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions
As nouns the difference between detachment and isolation
is that detachment is the action of detaching; separation while isolation is the state of being isolated, detached, or separated.detachment
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- As of 1975, diplomatic ostracism is still imposed by the Organization of American States (OAS). The inter-American community also exercises a trade embargo against Cuba. But even within this context of hemispheric isolation , Havana’s diplomacy is strikingly contradictory.
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- Israel could offer to ease North Korea’s isolation' with diplomatic recognition,
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- It [Europe] now pressed Washington to begin direct talks with Tehran, but Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, Rice’s point man on Iran, still stressed that diplomatic isolation of Iran—and not diplomatic engagement—was the only acceptable approach for dealing with the Iranian nuclear challenge.