social ostracism
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7.6
- noun
- /ˈsoʊʃəl ˈɑstrəˌsɪzəm/
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ostracismo social
- The student's refusal to follow the school's rules led to social ostracism from his classmates.
- faced social ostracism
If she does not, she faces social ostracism and the guy faces some some social rebuke.
- If she does not, she faces social ostracism and the guy faces some some social rebuke.
Examples
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Usually, punishment had two aspects: social ostracism and spiritual sanctions.
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But there is a fundamental difference between social ostracism and official punishment, between the penalties imposed by a community of one’s peers and the heavy hand of the state—whether that state is a government or a university.
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And we might also be a little bit afraid of like social ostracism, social criticism or getting filmed or something like that.
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What causes them is a toxic mix of social ostracism and other factors.
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Choosing to exercise their rights, therefore, may result in social ostracism, leaving them no option but to leave their tribe and make for the city.
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Social ostracism often precedes mass violence by the powerful against the less powerful.
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Social ostracism is also a reality for most alleged collaborators and their families.
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For many such women in this study, God's acceptance empowered them to persevere in the face of social ostracism.
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Marginalized religiously, the Pentecostals also faced social ostracism because of their double minority status.
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Nonparticipation in the wage labor market is seen as parasitic and leads to social ostracism, except in certain highly circumscribed contexts (such as a married woman raising young children).
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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4.2
A situation when someone is not allowed to join or take part in a group
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7.4
Feeling of being alone and separate from other people
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7.9
To treat a person or group as unimportant and outside the main society
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7.9
Leaving someone out of a group on purpose
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7.2
Not talking to or seeing someone on purpose to show you are unhappy with them
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8.4
To exclude someone from a group as punishment or social rejection
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8.9
Being left out and ignored by people in your community
Leaving someone out of a group so they cannot join in
A formal action that removes someone from a group for breaking rules
Being rejected by most people and treated as an outsider
Antonyms
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'ostracism' denotes exclusion and 'social' specifies the social domain, so a learner who knows both words can infer 'exclusion from social interactions'. This construction is literal and cross-linguistically comparable (e.g. Spanish 'ostracismo social'), making it immediately predictable rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
Social ostracism may come from a long-ago practice in Greece where people wrote a name on a broken pot and voted to send that person away. That image of using a broken pot to choose someone to be 'left out' helps explain why social ostracism today means the group 'excludes' or 'leaves someone out' as a kind of punishment.