segregation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: seg=re=ga=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

segregation, n. [L. segregatio: cf. F. ségrégation.].

•  The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.  [1913 Webster]
•  Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

segregation, n.
1 enforced separation of racial groups in a community etc.
2 the act or an instance of segregating; the state of being segregated.

Derivative

segregational adj. segregationist n. & adj.

Etymology

LL segregatio (as SEGREGATE(1))

THESAURUS

segregation

Jim Crow, Jim Crow law, alien, alteration, analysis, anatomization, anti-Semitism, apartheid, apartness, atomization, black power, black supremacy, change, chauvinism, class consciousness, class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war, color bar, color line, contradistinction, cordon, cordon sanitaire, cordoning off, demarcation, desynonymization, detachment, differencing, differentiation, discrimination, disequalization, disjunction, distinction, distinctiveness, distinguishment, diversification, division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, fascism, foreigner, hairsplitting, individualization, individuation, insularity, insulation, isolation, isolationism, know-nothingism, male chauvinist, microscopic distinction, minority prejudice, modification, narrowness, nice distinction, nuance, out-group, outcast, outsider, parochialism, particularization, persona non grata, personalization, privacy, privatism, privatization, quarantine, quarantine flag, race hatred, race prejudice, race snobbery, racial discrimination, racial segregation, racialism, racism, recess, reclusion, red-baiting, retirement, retreat, rustication, sanitary cordon, seclusion, secrecy, separateness, separation, separatism, sequestration, severalization, severance, sex discrimination, sexism, shade of difference, snobbishness, social barrier, social discrimination, specialization, splendid isolation, stranger, subtle distinction, superpatriotism, tightness, trichoschistism, ultranationalism, variation, white power, white supremacy, withdrawal, xenophobia, yellow flag, yellow jack

ROGET THESAURUS

segregation

Disjunction

N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.

Exclusion

N exclusion, nonadmission, omission, exception, rejection, repudiation, exile, noninclusion, preclusion, prohibition, separation, segregation, seposition, elimination, expulsion, cofferdam, excluding, exclusive, excluded, unrecounted, not included in, inadmissible, exclusive of, barring, except, with the exception of, save, bating, exclusion, seclusion, exclusion, seclusion, privacy, retirement, reclusion, recess, snugness, delitescence, rustication, rus in urbe, solitude, solitariness, isolation, loneliness, estrangement from the world, voluntary exile, aloofness, cell, hermitage, convent, sanctum sanctorum, depopulation, desertion, desolation, wilderness, howling wilderness, rotten borough, Old Sarum, exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription, cut, cut direct, dead cut, inhospitality, inhospitableness, dissociability, domesticity, Darby and Joan, recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite, anchoret, anchorite, Simon Stylites, troglodyte, Timon of Athens, Santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes, outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic, wastrel, foundling, wilding, secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye, out of the world, out of the way, the world forgetting by the world forgot, snug, domestic, stay-at-home, unsociable, unsocial, dissocial, inhospitable, cynical, inconversable, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic, solitary, lonely, lonesome, isolated, single, estranged, unfrequented, uninhabitable, uninhabited, tenantless, abandoned, deserted, deserted in one's utmost need, unfriended, kithless, friendless, homeless, lorn, forlorn, desolate, unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited, unwelcome, under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast, banished, noli me tangere, among them but not of them, and homeless near a thousand homes I stood, far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, makes a solitude and calls it peace, magna civitas magna solitudo, never less alone than when alone, O sacred solitude! divine retreat!.