isolement
See also: isolément
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French isolement.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
isolement n (plural isolementen)
- isolation (condition of being isolated, alone)
French edit
Etymology edit
From isoler + -ment, first attested in 1701.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
isolement m (plural isolements)
- isolation (detachment, exclusion)
- isolement social ― social isolation
- Cet état d’isolement lui est pénible.
- This state of isolation is painful for him.
- (medicine) isolation (separation of a patient)
Usage notes edit
- isolation nowadays has a connotation of physical isolation or insulation as a form of protection, chiefly of objects.
- isolement nowadays has a connotation of isolation in the sense of exclusion.
- In older texts, the two may be used more interchangeably.
See also edit
- quarantaine (“quarantine”)
Further reading edit
- “isolement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.