alienation
/ˌeɪli.əˈneɪʃən/ nom C1En français : aliénation
- The act of alienating. · The alienation of that viewing demographic is a poor business decision.
- The state of being alienated.
- Emotional isolation or dissociation, as from being separated from social connections or estranged from one's family or community; a feeling of being an outsider. · I didn't care about anything back then, not holidays or family or my career, I felt utter alienation from everything around me.· When parents get divorced, their child sometimes experiences parental alienation, in which they are estranged from the noncustodial parent.
- Verfremdungseffekt.
- The transfer of property to another person.
- The estrangement of people from aspects of their human nature as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes (e.g., under capitalism or feudalism).
Pluriel alienations
Dans la bibliothèque
He had taken the silence of the old man for a return to reason; and now these few words uttered by Faria, after so painful a crisis, seemed to indicate a serious relapse into mental alienation.
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