isolationism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English isolation

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English isolationism

From isolation + -ism.

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃəˌnɪzəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

isolationism (countable and uncountable, plural isolationisms)

1. A national (or group) policy of non-interaction with other nations (or groups).
   • 2026 November 7, Shibani Mahtani, Miriam Berger, “World now looks at how Biden will reshape U.S. policies after turbulent Trump era”, in The Washington Post‎^[1]:

     Many hope the period of American isolationism and country-first populism under President Trump will give way to an era of renewed U.S. global leadership and embrace of multilateralism to tackle common challenges.

Related terms

• isolationist

Translations

policy of non-interaction

• Arabic: اِنْعِزَالِيَّة (inʕizāliyya)
• Armenian: իզոլյացիոնիզմ (hy) (izolyacʻionizm)
• Bulgarian: изолационизъм m (izolacionizăm)
• Catalan: aïllacionisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孤立主義 / 孤立主义 (zh) (gūlìzhǔyì)

• Czech: izolacionismus m, izolacionizmus m
• Dutch: isolationisme (nl) n
• Finnish: eristäytyminen (fi), isolationismi
• French: isolationnisme (fr) m
• Georgian: იზოლაციონიზმი (izolacionizmi)
• German: Isolationismus (de) m
• Hungarian: izolacionizmus (hu)
• Indonesian: isolasionisme (id)
• Italian: isolazionismo (it) m
• Japanese: 孤立主義 (こりつしゅぎ, koritsushugi)
• Kazakh: изоляционизм (ıyzolyacıyonıyzm)
• Korean: 고립주의(孤立主義) (ko) (goripjuui)
• Māori: angataratahitanga
• Persian: انزواطلبی (fa)
• Polish: autarkia (pl) f (cultural), autarkizm (pl) m (cultural), izolacjonizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: isolacionismo (pt) m
• Russian: изоляциони́зм (ru) m (izoljacionízm)
• Serbo-Croatian: izolacionizam (sh) m
• Sindhi: اڪيلائپ جي نيتي (ākelāp je nete)
• Spanish: aislacionismo (es) m
• Swedish: isolationism (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ізоляціоні́зм m (izoljacionízm)