segregation

Definitions

The action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things.

The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.

Examples

The historical policy of racial segregation had a profound and lasting impact on the community.

Modern urban planning often struggles to address the unintended segregation of neighborhoods based on socioeconomic status.

Synonyms

separation isolation apartheid partition discrimination exclusion seclusion

Antonyms

integration desegregation inclusion unity amalgamation union mixing