Alienation (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. the act of alienating, or of causing someone to become indifferent or hostile: The advocacy group fights against prejudice and social alienation of immigrants.
  2. the state of being alienated, withdrawn, or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection: the group's alienation from mainstream society.
  3. the act of turning away, transferring, or diverting: the alienation of land and resources from African peoples.
  4. a transfer of the title to property by one person to another; conveyance.
  5. the lack of correlation in the variation of two measurable variates over a population.
noun
  1. a turning away; estrangement
  2. the state of being an outsider or the feeling of being isolated, as from society
  3. a state in which a person's feelings are inhibited so that eventually both the self and the external world seem unreal
  4. law
    • the transfer of property, as by conveyance or will, into the ownership of another
    • the right of an owner to dispose of his property
Alienation (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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