Definition of "ostracization" [ostracization]

• A state of being ostracized. (noun)
• The process or practice of ostracizing. (noun)

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• "Moroccans consider HIV/AIDS as a divine curse invoked as a punishment for deviant behavior opposed to ethics and the Islamic religion they rejected those infected […] [The victims] live in a state of anxiety and depression, with suicidal tendencies caused by this social ostracization and with a lack of compassion even, sometimes, from close relatives."
• ""Me" will turn into "them," and thus the film will reinforce broader culture's ostracization of the geek."
• "This is why the ancient Greeks had a political mechanism for pre-emptive ostracization."