Alienation
noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The act of alienating. uncountable, usually
"The alienation of that viewing demographic is a poor business decision."
- 2 the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly wordnet
- 3 The state of being alienated. uncountable, usually
"I refer to the state of our divisions and alienations of spirit on account of religion."
- 4 (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another wordnet
- 5 Emotional isolation or dissociation. uncountable, usually
"But these domestic alienations are not confined to those who once moved in the higher orders of society--the monthly registers announce almost as many divorces as marriages, and the facility of separation has rendered the one little more than a licentious compact, which the other is considered as a means of dissolving."
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- 6 the feeling of being alienated from other people wordnet
- 7 Verfremdungseffekt. uncountable, usually
- 8 separation resulting from hostility wordnet
- 9 The transfer of property to another person. uncountable, usually
"The most usual and universal method of acquiring a title to real estates is that of alienation, conveyance, or purchase in it's limited sense: under which may be comprized any method wherein estates are voluntarily resigned by one man, and accepted by another; whether that be effected by sale, gift, marriage settlement, devise, or other transmission of property by the mutual consent of the parties."
- 10 The estrangement of people from aspects of their human nature as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes. Marxism, uncountable, usually
Example
More examples"Alienation is a common theme of twentieth-century literature."
Etymology
From Middle English alienacioun, borrowed from Old French alienacion, itself borrowed from Latin aliēnātiōnem.