ostracism
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry
Types & categories
- exclusion hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
the act of excluding someone from society by general consent
Types & categories
- expulsion hypernym
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ostracize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | blackball |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | exclusion |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ostracize |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | blackball |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | expulsion |