alienation
ay lee uh nay shuhn
- n the feeling of being alienated from other people
- n separation resulting from hostility
- n (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 - n the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly
- Edgy, unpredictable, ahead of its time, "Peanuts" "vibrated with '50s alienation," Trudeau recalled.
- What sort of alienation drives this resolve? When, at the age of 2, Barack Obama was abandoned by his African father, he lost both a father and accessibility to a black identity .
- It was, like many debut collections, a document of rebellion in this case, against the values of his Christian, middle-class Chinese upbringing, and the social alienation that .