segregating
Keeping groups apart
Segregating is the present participle of segregate, meaning to separate or set apart from others, often based on characteristics like race, gender, or type.
The word carries strong historical weight from racial segregation in the United States, where laws enforced the separation of Black and white people in public spaces.
Beyond this charged sense, segregating applies to any deliberate separation: The facility was segregating recyclables from trash.
In biology, segregating describes how genetic traits separate during cell division.
Restricting contact during illness
- sequesteringRemoving from general access
- cordoningEnclosing with a barrier
- separatingDividing into parts
- confiningLimiting freedom of movement
secluding · insulating · partitioning · walling off · enclosing · detaching · withdrawing · cloistering
Racial separation policy
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
- ghettoizationForced residential segregation
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
exclusion · marginalization · ostracism · separation · untouchability · caste · alienation · othering
Dividing into sections
- splittingDividing into parts
- separatingDividing into parts
- segmentingDividing into portions
- subdividingSplitting into smaller units
demarcating · sectioning · bifurcating · carving · slicing · compartmentalizing · fractionating · zoning
Systematic grouping by traits
- sortingArranging into sequence
- groupingArrangement by shared traits
- organizingSystematically putting in order
- separatingDividing into parts
labeling · arranging · codifying · structuring · systematizing · indexing · allocating · assigning
quarantining
Restricting contact during illness
- sequesteringRemoving from general access
- cordoningEnclosing with a barrier
- separatingDividing into parts
confining · secluding · insulating · partitioning · walling off · enclosing · detaching · withdrawing · cloistering · cocooning
apartheid
Racial separation policy
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
- ghettoizationForced residential segregation
Jim Crow · exclusion · marginalization · ostracism · separation · untouchability · caste · alienation · othering · prejudice
partitioning
Dividing into sections
- splittingDividing into parts
- separatingDividing into parts
- segmentingDividing into portions
subdividing · demarcating · sectioning · bifurcating · carving · slicing · compartmentalizing · fractionating · zoning · cleaving
classification
Systematic grouping by traits
- sortingArranging into sequence
- groupingArrangement by shared traits
- organizingSystematically putting in order
separating · labeling · arranging · codifying · structuring · systematizing · indexing · allocating · assigning · distributing
- organizingorganizing, categorizing, grouping, structuring, classifying
- discriminationracism, systemic discrimination, Jim Crow laws, sexism, racial harassment
- isolation typesisolation, quarantine, lockdown, seclusion, confinement
- separatingseparating, detaching, disconnecting, dividing, splitting
- organizing methodssorting, grouping, ranking, ordering, categorizing
- boundary termsfencing, walling, hedging, bordering, edging
segregatingintegrating
Combining into a whole
desegregating · unifying · merging · combining · joining
- school segregationRacial division in education
- racial segregationSeparation by ethnic background
- segregation lawsStatutes mandating racial separation
- segregation eraTime of legal racial separation
- housing segregationSeparation of residences by demographics
- segregation policiesLaws mandating group separation
segregation, desegregation, segregations, desegregating, segregative