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alienation
[ eyl-yuh-ney-shuhn, ey-lee-uh- ]
noun
- the act of alienating, or of causing someone to become indifferent or hostile:
The advocacy group fights against prejudice and social alienation of immigrants.
- the state of being alienated, withdrawn, or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection:
the group's alienation from mainstream society.
- the act of turning away, transferring, or diverting:
the alienation of land and resources from African peoples.
- Law. a transfer of the title to property by one person to another; conveyance.
- Statistics. the lack of correlation in the variation of two measurable variates over a population.
alienation
/ ˌeɪljəˈneɪʃən; ˌeɪlɪə- /
noun
- a turning away; estrangement
- the state of being an outsider or the feeling of being isolated, as from society
- psychiatry a state in which a person's feelings are inhibited so that eventually both the self and the external world seem unreal
- law
- the transfer of property, as by conveyance or will, into the ownership of another
- the right of an owner to dispose of his property
alienation
- A feeling of separation or isolation. In social science , alienation is associated with the problems caused by rapid social change, such as industrialization and urbanization ( see Industrial Revolution ), which has broken down traditional relationships among individuals and groups and the goods and services they produce.
Notes
Other Words From
- alien·ative adjective
- nonal·ien·ation noun
- real·ien·ation noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of alienation1
Example Sentences
Poverty, alienation, estrangement, continuously aggravated by racism, overt and institutional.
But The Dog surpasses simply documenting the alienation endemic in the 21st-century global village.
This kind of thing sits in black American minds and creates a sense of alienation.
He was probably a perfect young candidate for moral alienation when confronted with the reality of war.
Deeper alienation and isolation can follow along with heightened chances of suicide and substance abuse.
In the close relation and affection of these last days, the sense of alienation and antagonism faded from both their hearts.
With regard to the latter he showed very plainly his alienation from Russian soil.
Her quiet confidence, while I was so dissatisfied, worked curiously towards the alienation of my sympathies.
All future tenures created by the king to be in free and common socage, reserving rents to the Crown and also fines on alienation.
These nightly retirements, in the sequel, gave rise to the first suspicion of his alienation from the church of Rome.
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