alienation
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7.4
- noun
- /ˌeɪliəˈneɪʃən/
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alienación
- Many people experience a sense of alienation when they move to a new city without knowing anyone.
- sense of alienation
- cultural alienation
- self-alienation
We we translate this as alienation or estrangement.
- We we translate this as alienation or estrangement.
- Or is it a diagnostic of our present alienation from the status quo?
- It's going to further create a alienation from what you usually do and from what you're doing now.
- And I really enjoyed one the writing to he explained the whole feeling of alienation really really well.
- What lies behind the feelings of alienation and anger among many Americans on the political right?
- And the thing that we're not talking about is the thing that may lie behind that, which is the strange alienation of young men and young women from one another.
- So he tells us that this alienation consists in.
- If drink and alienation and drugs are the problem.
- They come out in depression and alienation and all that sort of stuff.
- And my second and last point is that alarmism, defensiveness and the alienation of public support are clearly related.
- And the number one pre incident indicator for mass violence for multiple victim shootings, for example, is misery, misery, alienation.
Examples
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What lies behind the feelings of alienation and anger among many Americans on the political right?
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The result will be further widespread alienation from the entire European project.
Academic text (1999) -
And this is about alienation from normal living.
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The second is the alienation from the act of production.
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He faces his death with a feeling of alienation and being alone.
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The disappointment, the isolation, stress and alienation must have been devastating.
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Additionally, these practices feed into an already established sense of insecurity and alienation from the government.
Academic text (2008) -
So they live with a disturbance, with an alienation, with or with a deep sense of suffering because it just does not feel right to them.
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This is part of the despair, part of the alienation and the anguish that sensitive people feel.
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I sensed a collective alienation.
Synonyms
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3.7
A state of being alone and cut off from other people physically or emotionally
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2.3
A sad feeling when you are alone and feel separate from others
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4.2
A situation when someone is not allowed to join or take part in a group
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6.1
A lack of emotional involvement with people or situations
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6.0
Becoming quiet and less involved with other people
9
4.2
Being separate from people, things, or contact, for example losing internet
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7.8
A feeling of no longer being close to someone
4
7.8
A feeling of not being loyal or supportive toward people in power
2
6.6
A situation where things are kept apart from others, for example work and personal life
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4.8
Making less emotional or social contact with someone
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6.5
The act of stopping a connection or ending involvement with something
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8.4
To exclude someone from a group as punishment or social rejection
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6.7
A state of being separate from other people
1
7.6
Leaving a person out of social activities so they feel alone
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7.7
Feeling separate from a group or community
A feeling of not being accepted or part of a group
Feeling not part of a group or community
A feeling of not being included in a group or activity
A place or group that is cut off and surrounded by a different area
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
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9.9
A type of lawsuit a married person brings against someone who causes their partner to stop loving them
How Alienated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word alienation comes from the Latin alienus 'other' and the verb alienare 'to make other', and you can see the same root in the common word alien. So alienation is the feeling of being turned into an 'other', cut off from people or a group.