Estrangement

//ɪsˈtɹeɪnd͡ʒmənt// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    the feeling of being alienated from other people wordnet
  3. 3
    The state of being alien; foreign, non-native. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    separation resulting from hostility wordnet

Etymology

Old French estrangement. By surface analysis, estrange + -ment (“act, state”).

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