exclusion

Main Entry:
exclusion [ik-skloo-zhuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: expulsion; forbiddance
Synonyms: ban, bar, blackball, blockade, boycott, coventry, cut, debarment, debarring, discharge, dismissal, ejection, elimination, embargo, eviction, exception, excommunication, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, keeping out, lockout, nonadmission, occlusion, omission, ostracism, ousting, preclusion, prevention, prohibition, proscription, refusal, rejection, relegation, removal, repudiation, segregation, separation, suspension, veto
Antonyms: acceptance, addition, admittance, allowance, inclusion, incorporation, welcome
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Concept: Exclusion.
Category: 4. DISTRIBUTIVE ORDER
Synonyms:
-nouns
[The same set of words is used to express exclusion from a class and exclusion from a compound. Reference is therefore made to the former at [more]. This identity does not occur with regard to inclusion, which therefore constitutes a separate category.] exclusion [more].
Antonyms: inclusion
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Main Entry: disqualification
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disability; rejection for participation
Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, debarment, disenablement, disentitlement, elimination, exclusion, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, ineligibility, ineptitude, lack, unfitness, unproficiency
Antonyms: ability, aptitude, capability
Main Entry: elimination
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: removal
Synonyms: cut, destruction, discard, displacement, dropping, ejection, eradication, exclusion, expulsion, extermination, omission, rejection, riddance, taking away, weeding out, withdrawal
Main Entry: exception
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: leaving out
Synonyms: barring, debarment, disallowment, excepting, exclusion, excusing, expulsion, noninclusion, omission, passing over, rejection, repudiation, reservation
Antonyms: admittal, admittance, allowance, inclusion
Main Entry: exile
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deportation from a place
Synonyms: banishment, diaspora, dispersion, displacement, exclusion, expatriation, expulsion, extradition, migration, ostracism, proscription, relegation, scattering, separation
Main Entry: expulsion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: banishing
Synonyms: banishment, boot, bounce, debarment, deportment, discharge, dislodgment, dismissal, displacement, dispossession, driving out, ejection, eviction, exclusion, exile, expatriation, extrusion, forcing out, ostracism, ouster, ousting, proscription, purge, relegation, removal, rush, suspension
Antonyms: import, welcoming
Main Entry: omission
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something forgotten or excluded
Synonyms: blank, breach, break, cancellation, carelessness, chasm, cutting out, default, disregard, disregardance, elimination, elision, excluding, exclusion, failing, failure, forgetfulness, gap, hiatus, ignoring, inadvertence, inadvertency, lack, lacuna, lapse, leaving out, missing, neglect, noninclusion, overlook, overlooking, oversight, passing over, preclusion, preterition, pretermission, prohibition, repudiation, skip, slighting, slip, withholding
Antonyms: addition, inclusion, insertion, remembrance
Main Entry: ostracism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: banishment
Synonyms: avoidance, blackballing, boycott, cold-shouldering, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expulsion, isolation, rejection, shunning
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