Synonym: disaffection, estrangement. Similar words: rejuvenation, nationality, nationalist, nationalism, desalination, naturalization, nation, zonation. Meaning: [‚eɪljə'neɪʃn] n. 1. the feeling of being alienated from other people 2. separation resulting from hostility 3. (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another 4. the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly.
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31. Yet despite her palpable alienation from suburban stay-at-home motherhood, she is determined to make the best of it.
32. His name would immediately conjure a mood of lonely alienation.
33. There appears to be a universal crisis in centralised decision making and considerable public alienation from bureaucracy.
34. Instead of reinforcing the detachment and alienation implied by the electronics, Bowie frequently counters those qualities with rich, expansive melodies.
35. So despite the speculations of sociologists, television did not trivialize the news nor generate alienation and apathy.
36. All that is necessarily involved is a sense of belonging that excludes indifference to the group as well as alienation from it.
37. Yet it misses the deep roots of alienation in Western thought.
38. This is alienation in its purest form, so why does this book still make me laugh?
39. But the narrative of the afterlife is so fully developed it seems to be Self's surreal dystopia of urban alienation.
40. The positive metaphors of harmony and strength afforded by the utopianism of the machine aesthetic were countered by negative metaphors of alienation.
41. That stratification would occur as a necessary consequence of the alienation of labour.
42. In itself, relatively greater pride in culture does not reveal alienation from the political order.
43. It became a meditation on that sense of belonging, of identity, of alienation and how important all of that is.
44. Its cavalier treatment of human system factors produces alienation and stifles motivation.
45. Yet the price paid was, of course, alienation from the majority.
46. The Smiths are a synopsis of pain, a resolution - awkwardness and alienation ennobled, given poise.
47. Her alienation was of particular significance because she was soon after enlisted to mediate between her husband and her brother.
48. From the socialist perspective, these disparities cause misery, deep alienation, and pervasive conflict in the society.
49. Without this, there are real dangers of alienation, social division and disorder.
50. A more extended example can be provided by the notion of alienation.
51. I was always a dilettante when it came to alienation.
52. Soon afterwards, a prohibition on alienation was introduced: property under bequest was not to be alienated.
53. The first theory is that the move is a safety valve, to defuse popular resentment and a sense of alienation.
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54. It is also the most important measure of political alienation and aspiration.
55. But the outburst served to confirm the extent of his alienation from reality.
56. Fragmentation and alienation quickly entered the visual vocabulary of artists associated with early modernism.
57. The outcome is likely to be a huge pile of dead birds and further alienation.
58. A more practical way of securing the interests of trust beneficiaries against alienation by the trustee was needed.
59. Conversely, pursuing a mundane, poorly paid job or no job at all may provoke a sense of alienation from society.
60. The elite nature of the scientists and their consequent alienation from many of these changes prevent them from seizing upon these opportunities.
More similar words: rejuvenation, nationality, nationalist, nationalism, desalination, naturalization, nation, zonation, national, donation, orientation, damnation, alien, rumination, combination, inclination, nationwide, incarnation, nomination, domination, retaliation, rationalize, explanation, designation, indignation, destination, culmination, imagination, elimination, examination.