exclusion
Kept from joining
Exclusion is the act of keeping someone or something out, or the state of being kept out.
A club practices exclusion when it bars certain people from membership.
Her exclusion from the meeting felt deliberate.
The word often implies unfairness or discrimination: social exclusion, exclusion based on race.
In legal and insurance contexts, an exclusion is a specific condition or circumstance not covered: The policy has an exclusion for flood damage.
Banishment from a group
- shunningDeliberately avoiding someone
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- alienationState of being isolated
- blackballingGroup exclusion practice
boycott · snubbing · cold-shouldering · rejection · pariah · outcast · scapegoat · persona non grata
Barrier separating spaces
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- boundaryLine marking a limit
- divisionSplitting into parts
- segregationForced separation by group
apartheid · zoning · restricted access · gated · members-only · velvet rope · off-limits · private
State of lacking companions
- isolationComplete separation from others
- alienationState of being isolated
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
- disconnectionState of being severed
detachment · rejection · abandonment · invisibility · voicelessness · belonging · acceptance · outsider
Removal from eligibility
- removalAct of taking away
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- ejectionForced removal from somewhere
- barringExcluding from consideration
debarment · prohibition · ban · veto · disallowance · ineligibility · omission · exception
ostracism
Banishment from a group
- shunningDeliberately avoiding someone
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- alienationState of being isolated
blackballing · boycott · snubbing · cold-shouldering · rejection · pariah · outcast · scapegoat · persona non grata · excommunication
partition
Barrier separating spaces
segregation · apartheid · zoning · restricted access · gated · members-only · velvet rope · off-limits · private · closed-door
loneliness
State of lacking companions
- isolationComplete separation from others
- alienationState of being isolated
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
disconnection · detachment · rejection · abandonment · invisibility · voicelessness · belonging · acceptance · outsider · unwelcome
disqualification
Removal from eligibility
barring · debarment · prohibition · ban · veto · disallowance · ineligibility · omission · exception · exemption
- social conceptssociety, community, equality, justice, rights
- being overlookedneglect, dismissal, unnoticed, oversight, disregard
- estrangementrift, alienation, disconnection, distance, disaffection
- Exceptionsexception, exemption, special case, anomaly, outlier
- isolationloneliness, quarantine, lockdown, solitude, solitary
- restrictionsban, bans, limits, limit, restrictions
exclusioninclusion
Being made part
acceptance · welcome · belonging · embrace · integration
exclusionadmission
Entry or confession
admittance · inclusion · entry · access · allowance
exclusioninclusion
Being made part
addition · incorporation · encompassment · comprehensiveness · comprehension
- exclusive accessPermission limited to few
- mutually exclusiveCannot both be true
- exclusion zonesProhibited entry regions
- exclusive designsCreations available only selectively
- exclusive neighborhoodAffluent, restricted residential area
- exclusive clubsSelective membership organizations
exclusive, exclusively, exclusivity, exclusions, exclusionary, exclusionist, nonexclusive, exclusives, exclusiveness