Alienation
[eɪlɪə'neɪʃ(ə)n]
Definition
(noun.) the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly; 'his behavior alienated the other students'.
(noun.) (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'.
(noun.) the feeling of being alienated from other people.
(noun.) separation resulting from hostility.
Inputed by Dennis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
(n.) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.
(n.) A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.
(n.) Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.
Inputed by Kirsten
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Abalienation, transfer, demise, conveyance.[2]. Estrangement, disaffection, variance, division, rupture, breach.
Editor: Vicky
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Insanity, aberration, hallucination, derangement, imbecility
ANT:Sanity, soundness, sobriety, rationality
Checker: Sherman
Examples
- They might soon have been divided again, and broke into small parcels, either by succession or by alienation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But, in a new colony, a great uncultivated estate is likely to be much more speedily divided by alienation than by succession. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Shall two years more be thus passed, each day adding to our alienation, each act being another stone piled on the barrier which separates us? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But this opinion of his did not cause a lasting alienation; and the way in which the family was made whole again was characteristic of all concerned. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Susan