 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Alienation \Al'ien*a"tion\, noun [F. ali['e]nation, L. alienatio,
fr. alienare, fr. alienare. See {Alienate}.]
1. The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
2. (Law) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of
property to another.
3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.
The alienation of his heart from the king. --Bacon.
4. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties;
insanity; as, alienation of mind.
Syn: Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; aberration;
mania; delirium; frenzy; dementia; monomania. See
{Insanity}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
247 Moby Thesaurus words for "alienation":
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
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