Dictionary Definition
alienation
Noun
1 the feeling of being alienated from other
people [syn: disaffection, estrangement]
2 separation resulting from hostility [syn:
estrangement]
3 (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of
title and possession of real property from one person to another;
"the power of alienation is an essential ingredient of
ownership"
4 the action of alienating; the action of causing
to become unfriendly; "his behavior alienated the other
students"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- IPA eɪliɛneɪʃʌn
- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The act of alienating.
- The alienation of that viewing demographic is a poor business decision.
- The state of being alienated.
- Emotional isolation or dissociation.
Translations
the act of alienating
- Croatian: alijenacija
- Dutch: vervreemden
- Portuguese: alienação , alheamento
the state of being alienated
emotional isolation or dissociation
- Croatian: alijenacija
- Dutch: vervreemding
- Portuguese: alienação
Extensive Definition
Alienation may refer to:
- Alienation (property law), the legal transfer of title of ownership to another party
- "Alienation", the medical term for splitting apart of the faculties of the mind
- Social alienation, the individual subject's estrangement from its community, society, or world
- Marx's theory of alienation, the separation of things that naturally belong together, or antagonism between things that are properly in harmony
- Alienation effect, a theatrical and cinematic device by which the audience is "alienated" from a play or film
See also
- Alien Nation (film and TV series)
alienation in Romanian: Alienare
(dezambiguizare)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abalienation, aberration, abnormality, abstraction, abulia, agreement to disagree,
aloneness, aloofness, amortization, amortizement, anxiety, anxiety equivalent,
anxiety state, apathy,
apostasy, assignation, assignment, autism, autistic thinking,
avoidance mechanism, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, blame-shifting,
brain damage, brainsickness, brainwashing, breach, breach of friendship,
break, catatonic stupor,
celibacy, cession, cleavage, cleft, clouded mind, compensation, compulsion, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, conveyance, conveyancing, corruption, counter-culture,
counterindoctrination,
craziness, daftness, decompensation, deeding, defense mechanism,
dejection, deliverance, delivery, dementedness, dementia, demise, depression, derangement, dereism, dereistic thinking,
detachment, difference, disaccord, disaffection, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disarticulation,
disassociation,
disconnectedness,
disconnection,
discontinuity,
disengagement,
disfavor, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, disorientation, disparity, displacement, disposal, disposition, disruption, dissatisfaction,
dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissociation, distraction, disunion, disunity, divergence, diversity, dividedness, division, divorce, divorcement, dropping out,
elation, emotional
insulation, emotionalism, enfeoffment, escape, escape into fantasy,
escape mechanism, escapism, estrangement, euphoria, exchange, falling-out, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, folie, folie du doute, furor, giving, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, incoherence, indifference, indoctrination, insaneness, insanity, insensibility, irrationality, isolation, keeping apart,
lease and release, lethargy, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, loss of mind,
loss of reason, lunacy,
luxation, madness, mania, melancholia, mental
deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder,
mental distress, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental
instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, minority
opinion, moving apart, negativism, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, obsession, oddness, open rupture, opposition, overcompensation,
parting, partition, pathological
indecisiveness, pixilation, possession, preoccupation, privacy, projection, psychalgia, psychomotor
disturbance, psychopathy, psychotaxis, queerness, rabidness, rationalization,
reasonlessness,
recall of ambassadors, recusance, recusancy, reindoctrination,
rejection, removal, repudiation, resistance, rift, ruffled feelings, rupture, sale, schism, secession, seclusion, segmentation, senselessness, separateness, separation, separatism, sequestration, settlement, settling, shattered mind, sick
mind, sickness, single
blessedness, sociological adjustive reactions, solitariness, solitude, splendid isolation,
split, strained relations,
strangeness,
stupor, subdivision, sublimation, substitution, subtraction, subversion, surrender, tic, trading, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, twitching, unbalance, unbalanced mind,
underground,
unresponsiveness,
unsaneness, unsound
mind, unsoundness,
unsoundness of mind, variance, vesting, wish-fulfillment
fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, witlessness, zoning