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Definition of ostracism : 1. Banishment by popular vote, - a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.
2. Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism.

Synonyms:

coventry, reward, transportation, accept, eviction

denial, repudiation, abscission, banishment, relegation, eradication, excommunication, disallowance, prohibition, ejection, proscription, boycott, excision, deportation, amputation, exile, exclusion, extradition, forbiddance, rejection, expatriation, disbarment, removal, ban, elimination, renouncement

confinement, loneliness, aloneness, segregation, separation, misanthropy, captivity, isolation, standoffishness, aloofness, detachment, reclusion, solitude, apartheid, seclusion, xenophobia, anonymity, alienation, extirpation

Usage examples:

• Outwardly he must conform to the ways of his neighbors, just as he must pay tribute to the policeman on the beat; for standing room is necessary to all operations, and social ostracism could ruin him as easily as police persecution. - "The Promised Land", Mary Antin.
• And when, at this time, there was no doubt but that the ostracism would fall upon one of those three, Alcibiades contrived to form a coalition of parties, and, communicating his project to Nicias, turned the sentence upon Hyperbolus himself. - "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans", Clough, Arthur Hugh.
• The people, enraged at this, and thinking that they had been treated with contempt, abolished the practice of ostracism. - "Plutarch's Lives, Volume II", Aubrey Stewart & George Long.