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Estrangement
//ɪsˈtɹeɪnd͡ʒmənt// noun
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Noun
- 1 The act of estranging; the act of alienating; alienation. countable, uncountable
"The impeachment crisis is also a symptom of a country caught in a massive political estrangement that is tearing apart any sense of common patriotic purpose. It has exposed a political culture in which the facts – in this case, of the President’s actions – are no longer sacrosanct and that has been laced with a fog of misinformation by his allies."
- 2 the feeling of being alienated from other people wordnet
- 3 The state of being alien; foreign, non-native. countable, uncountable
- 4 separation resulting from hostility wordnet
Etymology
Old French estrangement. By surface analysis, estrange + -ment (“act, state”).
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