desocializes
Cuts off contact
Desocializes means to remove from social interaction or undo socialization.
A person who desocializes withdraws from social connections: After the breakup, she completely desocialized and stopped answering calls.
The term also describes reversing trained social behaviors, particularly in animals: The rescue dog had been desocialized by years of isolation.
Emotional separation between people
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
- ostracismBanishment from a group
- rejectionDenial of acceptance
stigmatization · othering · outcasting · shunning · banishment · exile · excommunication · blacklisting
Voluntary withdrawal from society
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- confinementState of being restricted
- segregationForced separation by group
- sequesteringRemoving from general access
cloistering · hermitage · cocooning · shutting in · walling off · cutting off · barricading · insulating
Withdrawal from involvement
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- disconnectionState of being severed
- distancingCreating space or separation
retreating · pulling away · shutting out · tuning out · checking out · opting out · dropping out · backing away
Observing one's own mind
- inwardnessState of being internal
- self-containmentState of internal completeness
- reservednessTendency toward social restraint
- reticenceHabitual verbal restraint
quietness · self-reflection · contemplation · pensiveness · meditativeness · bookishness · reclusiveness · unsociability
estrangement
Emotional separation between people
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
- ostracismBanishment from a group
rejection · stigmatization · othering · outcasting · shunning · banishment · exile · excommunication · blacklisting · cold-shouldering
seclusion
Voluntary withdrawal from society
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- confinementState of being restricted
- segregationForced separation by group
sequestering · cloistering · hermitage · cocooning · shutting in · walling off · cutting off · barricading · insulating · encapsulating
disengagement
Withdrawal from involvement
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- disconnectionState of being severed
distancing · retreating · pulling away · shutting out · tuning out · checking out · opting out · dropping out · backing away · stepping back
introspection
Observing one's own mind
- inwardnessState of being internal
- self-containmentState of internal completeness
- reservednessTendency toward social restraint
reticence · quietness · self-reflection · contemplation · pensiveness · meditativeness · bookishness · reclusiveness · unsociability · guardedness
desocializessocializes
Engages with others
integrates · assimilates · mainstreams · connects · includes
desocializessocializes
Engages with others
resocializes · civilizes · habituates · acclimates · reintegrates
social, socialize, socialized, socializes, socializing, socialization, socially, socialism, socialist