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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- the state of being alienated, withdrawn, or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection: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 ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²¹±ôi±ð²Ô·²¹î€…t¾±±¹±ð adjective
- ²Ô´Ç²Ôa±ô·¾±±ð²Ô·²¹î€ƒt¾±´Ç²Ô noun
- °ù±ða±ô·¾±±ð²Ô·²¹î€ƒt¾±´Ç²Ô noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of alienation1
Example Sentences
Carlstrom has written a book that feels incredibly of the moment, twining together anger and glee, hope and despair, alienation and community.
People talk as people do; the scenes between Henry and Moura, Henry and Mulgrew and Henry and Rhames are especially good, each in its own way playing notes of suspicion, alienation and love.
It's that feeling of alienation, this kind of mental carsickness that we all walk around with, that stuck-in-traffic feeling but in your mind that I think has really become the mood of the times.
“The Spectacle’s function in a society is the concrete manufacture of alienation.â€
Sometimes that can lead to alienation and loneliness, but it also can be restorative.
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