alienation

Meaning

1. (uncountable, usually) The act of alienating.
2. (uncountable, usually) The state of being alienated.
3. (uncountable, usually) Emotional isolation or dissociation.
4. (uncountable, usually) Verfremdungseffekt.
5. (uncountable, usually) The transfer of property to another person.
6. (Marxism, uncountable, usually) 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.

Synonyms

estrangement

disaffection

transfer

hostility

assignment

mental confusion

grant

neglect

cession

foreignness

abalienation

separation

discouragement

isolation

disinterest

displacement

distantness

divestiture

enmity

estrange

extradition

forfeit

forfeiture

giving

handing over

handover

hatred

insanity

livery

marginalization

mental derangement

reassignment

recession

rift

surrender

transference

transplanting

alienator

social exclusion

transplantation

enstrangement

being a stranger

legal transfer

estrangment

cf. endowment

abandonment

adjournment

alienate

alienating

ceding

Translations

aliénation

alienazione

Entfremdung

alienação

alienación

alienació

enajenación

alheamento

désaffection

αποξένωση

απαλλοτρίωση

Veräußerung

Verfremdung

vervreemding

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˌeɪli.əˈneɪʃən]

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: alienacioun

In summary

From Middle English alienacioun, borrowed from Old French alienacion, itself borrowed from Latin aliēnātiōnem.