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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- the state of being alienated, withdrawn, or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection: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 Word Forms
- i·t adjective
- ԴDza··tDz noun
- a··tDz noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of alienation1
Example Sentences
This sense of "western alienation", a term used to describe the feeling that the region is often overlooked by politicians in Canada's capital, is nothing new.
He’s written novels, short stories and comics about alienation and disenfranchisement and revenge.
“Milkman” expertly exposes the alienation and paranoia of living in a city already riven by violence and the banality of gendered harm when there has been a larger societal breakdown.
I start with the basic notion of the alienation of labor that surrounds us every day.
Among the topics she discussed: Racism, school bullying, self-harm, alcoholism, alienation and toxic relationships.
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