1. (n.) Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy.

2. (n.) The state of one not invested with public office.

Jim Crow alien alienation aloneness aloofness anonymity apartheid celibacy closed meeting color bar confidentiality confidentialness cordon cordon sanitaire cordoning off detachment division ethnocentrism exclusiveness executive session foreigner incognito insularity insulation isolation keeping apart know-nothingism loneliness loneness lonesomeness moving apart narrowness out-group outcast outsider parochialism persona non grata privacy private private conference privateness quarantine quarantine flag race hatred racial segregation reclusion retirement sanitary cordon seclusiveness segregation separateness separation sequestration single blessedness snobbishness solitariness solitude splendid isolation stranger tightness withdrawal xenophobia yellow flag yellow jack