atomisticadjective
/ˌæt.əˈmɪs.tɪk//ˌæt̬.əˈmɪs.tɪk/formalexisting or operating separately from other similar things or people:
Without human society we remain atomistic individuals, isolated and alone.
Instead of holistic concepts of healing, modern medicine took an atomistic approach that reduced patients to no more than their dysfunctioning parts.
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Separateness and isolation in space
- apart
- atomized
- bitty
- cloistered
- detached
- distance
- divorced
- freely
- give sth/sb a wide berth idiom
- hermetically sealed
- isolated
- loose
- parted
- privacy
- private
- purdah
- secluded
- uninhabited
- untethered
- wide
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