Alienation (Noun)
Meaning 1
Separation resulting from hostility.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Synonyms
Meaning 2
The feeling of being alienated from other people.
Classification
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions.
Examples
- She struggled to overcome her alienation after moving to a new city where she knew no one.
- His experience as a minority student at a predominantly white university left him feeling like an outsider and increased his sense of alienation.
- After the loss of her best friend, she began to experience deep emotional alienation and withdrew from her social circle.
- He had become disillusioned with his high-pressure job, feeling like just a cog in a machine and an object of exploitation, and that realization heightened his feelings of alienation.
- Growing up as an only child of parents who constantly worked and rarely had time for him had caused his lifelong alienation and a profound struggle to connect with others.
Synonyms
Meaning 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".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Hypernyms
Meaning 4
The action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly; "his behavior alienated the other students".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.