estrangement
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7.8
- noun
- /ɪˈstreɪndʒmənt/
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- After years of misunderstandings, their estrangement felt permanent and deeply painful.
- sense of estrangement
- feeling of estrangement
- estrangement from family
We we translate this as alienation or estrangement.
- We we translate this as alienation or estrangement.
- That's how, you know, extensive the the estrangement, the alienation of the slave is going to be.
- They can't afford the divorce or they feel that sense of stigma around things like family estrangement.
- Native Americans entered A horrifying systemic displacement of estrangement from the natural giving world, King explains.
- Can you can you just can you withstand the the sudden estrangement and find your people and find your way or you're going to hightail it?
- But I'm deeply concerned, Jay, about the rise of both estrangement.
- A ghast estrangement dramatizes the ocular theme.
- Listen, most, maybe not all, but most survivors of narcissistic breakups or estrangements.
Examples
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Short-term differences between India and the United States caused their estrangement during the Cold War.
Academic text (2011) -
In these estrangements, as in Yellow Woman's estrangement from her family and tribe, there is meaning.
Academic text (1997) -
I did everything right for my daughter, and have nothing but estrangement to show for it.
Fiction book (1999) -
So what do you think led to that estrangement, and will you tell us about how that occurred?
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This mutual estrangement has had enormous cultural, social, and political consequences.
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Sometimes families do become estranged, and that estrangement may in fact be healthier for some of the people in it.
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We took long runs, and I told her of our estrangement as she listened sympathetically.
Blog text (33) -
Sibling estrangement is a subset of family estrangement, which bears further discussion.
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His wife died last spring, prompting Veronica's return to the U.S... ...and a father-daughter reconciliation following years of estrangement.
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This cycle of closeness, then estrangement you've both told me about, what instigates it, triggers it?
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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2.6
The process of moving apart or staying apart
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7.4
Feeling of being alone and separate from other people
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6.0
Becoming quiet and less involved with other people
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4.2
Being separate from people, things, or contact, for example losing internet
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6.1
The act of separating something from the thing it is connected to
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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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6.7
A state of being separate from other people
Antonyms
How Distant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Estrangement comes from an old idea of being put 'outside' and is related to strange and stranger, words for someone who is not part of a group. So estrangement means being no longer close, friendly, or connected to someone.